Cradle to Grave Life, Work, and Death at the Lake Superior Copper Mines

Name: Cradle to Grave Life, Work, and Death at the Lake Superior Copper Mines
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ISBN: 9780195083576

ISBN-10: 0195083571

ISBN-13: 9780195083576

Edition: Reprint

Authors: Larry Lankton

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Concentrating on technology, economics, labor, and social history, Cradle to Grave documents the full life cycle of one of America's great mineral ranges from the 1840s to the 1960s. Lankton examines the workers' world underground, but is equally concerned with the mining communities on the surface. For the first fifty years of development, these mining communities remained remarkably harmonious, even while new, large companies obliterated traditional forms of organization and work within the industry. By 1890, however, the Lake Superior copper industry of upper Michigan started facing many challenges, including strong economic competition and a declining profit margin; growing worker…

Book details

List price: $58.00
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/25/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 9.25" wide x 6.14" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English