Gary Kaunonen

Flames of Discontent

The 1916 Minnesota Iron Ore Strike

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Produktbeschreibung

Gary Kaunonen is an independent historian of labor and immigration and a documentary filmmaker based in International Falls, Minnesota. He is author of Finns in Michigan along with two award-winning books, Challenge Accepted: A Finnish Immigrant Response to Industrial America in Michigan’s Copper Country and, with coauthor Aaron Goings, Community in Conflict: A Working-class History of the 1913–14 Michigan Copper Strike and the Italian Hall Tragedy. His documentary Northern Minnesota’s Labor Wars examines the 1916 and 1917 strikes in that region and their significance to World War I–era political deportations and repression.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Minnesota Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9781517902681
• ISBN-10: 1517902681
• Artikelnr.: 48066880

Autorenporträt

Gary Kaunonen is an independent historian of labor and immigration and a documentary filmmaker based in International Falls, Minnesota. He is author of Finns in Michigan along with two award-winning books, Challenge Accepted: A Finnish Immigrant Response to Industrial America in Michigan’s Copper Country and, with coauthor Aaron Goings, Community in Conflict: A Working-class History of the 1913–14 Michigan Copper Strike and the Italian Hall Tragedy. His documentary Northern Minnesota’s Labor Wars examines the 1916 and 1917 strikes in that region and their significance to World War I–era political deportations and repression.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Preface: Kitchen Table Politics
Introduction: Workers’ Rights, Immigrant Voices
1. A Place Hard as Iron:Mining’s Divided Landscapes
2. The Seasonal Struggle: Labor and Politics in Northern Minnesota
3. Wobbly Firebrands: Organizing the Finnish Working-class
4. From Strikebreakers to Solidarity: The Slavic Worker Revolt
5. The Rhetoric of Revolution: Communicating the Strike
6. Flash Point: Dissent and Violence in 1916
Conclusion: Rising from the Ashes
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index