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Clemenc, Ana K 1888-1956 Clemenc, Ana K 1888-1956 Fiction Copper Miners' Strike, Mich., 1913-1914 Copper Miners' Strike, Mich., 1913-1914 Fiction Italian Hall Disaster, Calumet, Mich., 1913 Labor movement Labor movement Michigan History 20th century Fiction Michigan Women labor leaders Women labor leaders Michigan FictionSimons, Donna Searight.
Summary: "In 1913, Paul Weyburn and his fellow copper miners have tolerated dangerous working conditions for too long. Some of their workmates are being maimed or killed thousands of feet underground. . .which one of them will be next? Paul leads some of the miners on a labor strike to bring attention to the dangers of blasting and drilling copper for low pay. Marie, his wife, struggles to raise their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Empire Publishing 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIMCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: P SIMSummary: "Bisbee '17 is a nonfiction feature film by award-winning filmmaker Robert Greene set in Bisbee, Arizona, an eccentric old mining town just miles away from both Tombstone and the Mexican border. Radically combining collaborative documentary, western and musical elements, the film follows several members of the close knit community as they attempt to reckon with their town's darkest hour. In...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF BISBrogan, Earl
Summary: "Roy Shea has never been one to make waves. But he's noticed some changes in his beloved Upper Peninsula, changes he's not entirely comfortable with. When two strangers come to town, Roy finds himself in more trouble than he ever bargained for-as do the strangers, as the ghosts of the Peninsula take a sudden interest in human affairs. Before long, the supernatural and natural, the past and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Star Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRORussell, 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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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: Book Club Kit 207 FIC RUSRussell, Mary Doria
Summary: In July 1913, 25-year-old Annie Clements had seen enough of the world to know that it was unfair. She's spent her whole life in the copper-mining town of Calumet, Michigan where men risked 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 men deep underground each day, dreading...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC RUSCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction RusFranklin, Jonathan
Summary: This is the account of the 2010 San Jose mine rescue in Chile, after one of the longest human entrapments in history. With his coveted "rescue pass," the author was permitted access far past the police perimeter. It would be seventeen long days before the miners were discovered alive and the world press descended. It would be another fifty-two days before the miners were all successfully...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.11 FRAKaunonen, Gary.
Summary: A mirror of great changes that were occurring on the national labor rights scene, the 1913–14 Michigan Copper Strike was a time of unprecedented social upheaval in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. With organized labor taking an aggressive stance against the excesses of unfettered capitalism, the stage was set for a major struggle between labor and management. The Michigan Copper Strike received...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 977.49 KAULehto, Steve.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Momentum Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.499 LEH1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977.4 LEH
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Crime Mur LehtoCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 977 LehComstock, Lyndon.
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
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CLEMENC, ANNIE COMCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B CLEMENC COMBurns, Virginia.
Summary: The fictionalized biography of Ana Klobuchar Clemenc (1888-1956), daughter of Slovenian immigrants, who worked for Socialist causes and was an important figure in the 1913 Camulet copper miners' strike in the Upper Peninsula.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enterprise Press 1987
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1 available in Michigan Room, Call number: MI 921 Burns 1987Wasek, A.A.
Summary: One of America's most famous - and most deadly - labor strikes occurred in The Copper Country of Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula in 1913, and its major events are described through the eyes of sixteen-year old Emilia Rytilahti. Emilia and her younger sister Heli are first-generation American born Finns, who see and personally experience the prejudice of the era against their family and their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Wasek,] 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WASMaki, Wilbert B.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [s.n.] 1983
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 331.89 Maki,Lankton, Larry D.
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1991
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: Book Club Kit 208 NF LANLankton, Larry D.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: MI 622.343 LANLankton, Larry D.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 622.343 LANParker, Robert B.
Summary: When greedy mine owner Eamon O'Malley threatens the loose coalition of local ranchers and starts buying up Resolution's few businesses, Hitch and Cole find themselves in the middle of a makeshift war between O'Malley's men and the ranchers. In a place where law and order don't exist, Hitch and Cole must make their own, guided by their sense of duty, honor, and friendship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2008
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1 available in Adult- Western, Call number: Western Parker 2009Russell, 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 copper-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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2019
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Summary: The story of Annie Clemenc and the 1913 strike by copper miners employed by the Calumet & Hecla Mining Company in upper Michigan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 1995
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: An epic labor strike that devastated Michigan's Copper Country in 1913 haunts the American labor movement to this day. Among the notable elements of that strike was the death of 73 children at a union Christmas party, a tragedy immortalized by Woody Guthrie in his ballad "1913 Massacre", performed in the film by Steve Earle. The event remains the deadliest unsolved manslaughter in U.S. history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD REDRedniss, Lauren
Summary: Oak Flat tells the story of a race-against-time struggle for a swath of American land, which pits one of the poorest communities in the United States against the federal government and two of the world's largest mining conglomerates. The book follows the fortunes of two families with profound connections to the contested site: the Nosies, an Apache family whose teenage daughter is an activist...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.5 REDRussell, Mary Doria
Summary: In July 1913, 25-year-old Annie Clements had seen enough of the world to know that it was unfair. She's spent her whole life in the copper-mining town of Calumet, Michigan where men risked 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 men deep underground each day, dreading...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2019
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC RUSRussell, 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: Atria Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Russell 2019Summary: In 2010, the eyes of the world turned to Chile, where 33 miners had been buried alive by the catastrophic explosion and collapse of a 100-year-old gold and copper mine. Over the next 69 days, an international team worked night and day in a desperate attempt to rescue the trapped men as their families and friends, as well as millions of people globally, waited and watched anxiously for any sign...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA THIHalsey, John R.
Summary: "Discusses how nineteenth-century explorers and miners discovered evidence of prehistoric copper mining in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and how that discovery ultimately led to the destruction of the prehistoric archaeological sites they found"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Michigan, The Museum of Anthropology 2018