Challenge accepted : a Finnish immigrant response to industrial America in Michigan's copper country / Gary Kaunonen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kaunonen, Gary.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Finnish Americans--Michigan--Hancock--History.

Finnish Americans.

Immigrants--Michigan--Hancock--History.

Immigrants.

Finnish Americans--Michigan--Hancock--Social life and customs.

Finnish Americans--Michigan--Hancock--Social conditions.

Working class--Michigan--Hancock--History.

Working class.

Labor unions--Michigan--Hancock--History.

Labor unions.

Hancock (Mich.)--History.

Hancock (Mich.).

Hancock (Mich.)--Social conditions.

Hancock (Mich.)--Ethnic relations.

Työmies Publishing Company--History.

Työmies Publishing Company.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (298 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The copper mines of Michigan's Copper Country, in the Upper Peninsula, were active for 150 years, from 1845 until 1995. Many of the mine workers attempted to unionize, in order to obtain better working conditions, wages, and hours. The Michigan miners were unsuccessful in their struggles with mine owners, which came to a climax in the 1913-14 Copper Country Strike. This nine-month battle between workers represented by the Western Federation of Miners (WFM) and the three major mining companies in the region took a particularly nasty turn on Christmas Eve, 1913, at a party for

Contents:

Finnish immigration and settlement in a Hancock, Michigan neighborhood

Finnish immigrant cultural organizations and the "Finn Hall"

Finnish immigrant socialist-unionists in Hancock

The early existence of the Työmies Publishing Company, 1904-09

The Työmies Publishing Company reaches maturity, 1910-1913

The 1913-14 copper country strike

Gun hounds, scabs, and tragedy

Conclusion

Epilogue

Appendix 1: Työmies Publishing Company staff and contributors, 1909

Appendix 2: Työmies Publishing Company interior use of space, 1913

Appendix 3: Copper territory strikers' march, 1913

Appendix 4: Työmies Publishing Company's composite list of Italian Hall deceased, 1913.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-62895-154-0

1-60917-208-6

OCLC:

774285411