Challenge Accepted by Gary Kaunonen - 9780870138737

Challenge AcceptedA Finnish Immigrant Response to Industrial America in Michigan's Copper Country\nAuthor(s): Gary Kaunonen\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Michigan State University Press, United States\nImprint: Michigan State University Press\nISBN-13: 9780870138737, 978-0870138737\nSynopsis\nThe copper mines of Michigan's Copper Country, in the Upper Peninsula, were active for 150 years, from 1845 until 1995. Many of the mine workers attempted to unionize, in order to obtain better working conditions, wages, and hours.\n The Michigan miners were unsuccessful in their struggles with mine owners, which came to a climax in the [tel] Copper Country Strike. This nine-month battle between workers represented by the Western Federation of Miners (WFM) and the three major mining companies in the region took a particularly nasty turn on Christmas Eve, 1913, at a party for strikers and their families organized by the WFM. As many as 500 people were in the Italian Benevolent Society hall in Ca.