Flames of Discontent: The 1916 Minnesota Iron Ore Strike, Paperback/Gary Kaunonen
Livrare gratuita la comenzile de 249 lei
-
Produs:Nou, Ofer garanție, Cu factură
-
Numar articol:198131342
-
Disponibilitate:Indisponibil
-
Preț:112,99 Lei
-
Anuntul a expirat la:09.09.2019, 13:56
-
Vinde si tu:Pune in vanzare un produs ca acesta
-
Optiuni:
Descriere
Vânzatorul este direct răspunzator pentru produsul afișat în această pagină.
Disponibilitate: Indisponibil - Vezi produse similare
Specificatii
On June 2, 1916, forty mostly immigrant mineworkers at the St.
James Mine in Aurora, Minnesota, walked off the job. This seemingly
small labor disturbance would mushroom into one of the region's, if
not the nation's, most contentious and significant battles between
organized labor and management in the early twentieth century.
Flames of Discontent tells the story of this pivotal moment and
what it meant for workers and immigrants, mining and labor
relations in Minnesota and beyond. Drawing on previously untapped
accounts from immigrant press newspapers, company letters, personal
journals, and oral histories, historian Gary Kaunonen gives voice
to the strike's organizers and working-class participants. In depth
and in dramatic detail, his book describes the events leading up to
the strike, and the violence that made it one of the most
contentious in Minnesota history. Against the background of the
physical and cultural landscape of Minnesota's Iron Range,
Kaunonen's history brings the lives of working-class Finnish
immigrants into sharp relief, documenting the conditions and
circumstances behind the emergence of leftist politics and union
organization in their ranks. At the same time, it shows how the
region's South Slavic immigrants went from ``scabs`` during a 1907
strike to full-fledged striking members of the labor revolt of
1916. A look at the media of the time reveals how the three main
contenders for working-class allegiances--mine owners, Progressive
reformers, and a revolutionary union--communicated with their
mostly immigrant audience. Meanwhile, documents from mining company
officials provide a strong argument for corruption reaching as far
as the state's then governor, Joseph A. A. Burnquist, whose
strike-busting was undertaken in the interests of billion dollar
corporations. Ultimately, anti-syndicalist laws were put in place
to thwart the growing influence of organizations that sought to
represent immigrant workers. Flames of Discontent raises the voices
Modalitati de livrare si plata
LIVRARE
PLATA
- - Ramburs
Politica de retur
- - Produsul nu se poate returna.