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

Concentrating on technology, economics, labor, and social history, Cradle to Grave documents the full life cycle of...
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Author: Larry Lankton
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Language: English
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Cradle to Grave: Life, Work, and Death at the Lake Superior Copper Mines by Lankton, Larry

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

$208.00

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

$208.00
Author: Larry Lankton
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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 dissatisfaction with both living and working conditions; and erosion of the companies' hegemony in a district they once controlled. Lankton traces technological changes within the mines and provides a thorough investigation of mine accidents and safety. He then focuses on social and labor history, dealing especially with the issue of how company paternalism exerted social control over the work force. A social history of technology, Cradle to Grave will appeal to labor, social and business historians.

Author: Larry Lankton
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 02/25/1993
Pages: 348
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.13lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.24w x 0.69d
ISBN: 9780195083576

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