Boom Copper - The Story Of The First U.S. Mining Boom

Boom Copper - The Story Of The First U.S. Mining Boom
Author: Angus Murdoch
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2012-10-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 1447495578

The best single volume regarding the famous copper boom in Calumet, Michigan. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Paradise in the Sea of Sorrow

Paradise in the Sea of Sorrow
Author: Michiko Ishimure
Publisher: U of M Center for Japanese Studies
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2003
Genre: Medical
ISBN:

A moving account of Minamata disease victims' struggle for recognition and support in the years after mercury pollution was discovered in a group of fishing villages

A History of Emotions, 1200–1800

A History of Emotions, 1200–1800
Author: Jonas Liliequist
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 395
Release: 2015-10-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317320492

The essays in this collection examine emotional responses to art and music, the role of emotions in contemporary notions of gender and sexuality and theoretical questions as to their use.

Community in Conflict

Community in Conflict
Author: Gary Kaunonen
Publisher: MSU Press
Total Pages: 560
Release: 2013-07-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1628950382

A mirror of great changes that were occurring on the national labor rights scene, the 1913–14 Michigan Copper Strike was a time of unprecedented social upheaval in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. With organized labor taking an aggressive stance against the excesses of unfettered capitalism, the stage was set for a major struggle between labor and management. The Michigan Copper Strike received national attention and garnered the support of luminaries in organized labor like Mother Jones, John Mitchell, Clarence Darrow, and Charles Moyer. The hope of victory was overshadowed, however, by violent incidents like the shooting of striking workers and their family members, and the bitterness of a community divided. No other event came to symbolize or memorialize the strike more than the Italian Hall tragedy, in which dozens of workers and working-class children died. In Community in Conflict, the efforts of working people to gain a voice on the job and in their community through their unions, and the efforts of employers to crush those unions, take center stage. Previously untapped historical sources such as labor spy reports, union newspapers, coded messages, and artifacts shine new light on this epic, and ultimately tragic, period in American labor history.

The Women of the Copper Country

The Women of the Copper Country
Author: Mary Doria Russell
Publisher: Atria Books
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2019-08-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1982109580

From the bestselling and award-winning author of The Sparrow comes an inspiring historical novel about “America’s Joan of Arc” Annie Clements—the courageous woman who started a rebellion by leading a strike against the largest copper mining company in the world. In July 1913, twenty-five-year-old Annie Clements had seen enough of the world to know that it was unfair. She’s spent her whole life in the copper-mining town of Calumet, Michigan where men risk their lives for meager salaries—and had barely enough to put food on the table and clothes on their backs. The women labor in the houses of the elite, and send their husbands and sons deep underground each day, dreading the fateful call of the company man telling them their loved ones aren’t coming home. When Annie decides to stand up for herself, and the entire town of Calumet, nearly everyone believes she may have taken on more than she is prepared to handle. In Annie’s hands lie the miners’ fortunes and their health, her husband’s wrath over her growing independence, and her own reputation as she faces the threat of prison and discovers a forbidden love. On her fierce quest for justice, Annie will discover just how much she is willing to sacrifice for her own independence and the families of Calumet. From one of the most versatile writers in contemporary fiction, this novel is an authentic and moving historical portrait of the lives of the men and women of the early 20th century labor movement, and of a turbulent, violent political landscape that may feel startlingly relevant to today.