Challenge accepted [electronic resource] : a Finnish immigrant response to industrial America in Michigan's copper country / Gary Kaunonen.
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TextPublication details: East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, c2010.Description: xxv, 255 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., mapsSubject(s): - Työmies Publishing Company -- History
- Finnish Americans -- Michigan -- Hancock -- History
- Immigrants -- Michigan -- Hancock -- History
- Finnish Americans -- Michigan -- Hancock -- Social life and customs
- Finnish Americans -- Michigan -- Hancock -- Social conditions
- Working class -- Michigan -- Hancock -- History
- Labor unions -- Michigan -- Hancock -- History
- Hancock (Mich.) -- History
- Hancock (Mich.) -- Social conditions
- Hancock (Mich.) -- Ethnic relations
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- F574.H23 K386 2010eb
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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