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

Author

Gary Kaunonen

Call Number

• H 977.499 K217 (CEN)

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Publication Information

East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, c2010.

Physical Description

xxv, 255 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 23 cm.

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
• Appendix 3: Copper territory strikers' march, 1913
• Appendix 4: Työmies Publishing Company's composite list of Italian Hall deceased, 1913.