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Clemenc, Ana K 1888-1956 Copper Miners' Strike, Mich., 1913-1914 Dirigeantes syndicales Michigan Biographies Labor movement Labor movement Michigan History 20th century Michigan Mouvement ouvrier Michigan Histoire 20e siècle Strikes and lockouts Copper mining Strikes and lockouts Copper mining Michigan History 20th century Women labor leadersFilter By Subjects
Clemenc, Ana K 1888-1956 Copper Miners' Strike, Mich., 1913-1914 Dirigeantes syndicales Michigan Biographies Labor movement Labor movement Michigan History 20th century Michigan Mouvement ouvrier Michigan Histoire 20e siècle Strikes and lockouts Copper mining Strikes and lockouts Copper mining Michigan History 20th century Women labor leadersRussell, Mary Doria
Summary: "In July 1913, twenty-five-year-old Annie Clements had seen enough of the world to know that it was unfair. She's spent her whole life in the coal-mining town of Calumet, Michigan where men risk their lives for meager salaries--and had barely enough to put food on the table and clothes on their backs. The women labor in the houses of the elite, and send their husbands and sons deep underground...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Summary: A biography of Annie Clemenc, who led the 1913 strike by copper miners employed by the Calumet & Hecla Mining Company in upper Michigan. It covers her childhood, her work in the Slovenian immigrant community in Calumet, Michigan, her participation in the copper strike, and her subsequent life in Chicago.
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Publisher / Publication Date: L. Comstock 2013