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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 Labor movement Labor movement Michigan History 20th century Fiction Michigan Strikes and lockouts Fiction Women labor leaders Women labor leaders Michigan FictionComstock, 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 COMSummary: "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...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF BISKaunonen, 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 KAUWasek, 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 WASStanley, Jerry
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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Publisher / Publication Date: [s.n.] 1983
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 331.89 Maki,Durbin, William
Summary: In 1905 fifteen-year-old Otto describes in his journal how he travels from Finland to America, joining his father in a dreary iron mining community in Minnesota and becoming involved in a union fight for better working conditions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC DURSimons, 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 SIMSalazar, Aida
Summary: "Lula Viramontes aches to one day become someone whom no one can ignore: a daring ringleader in a Mexican traveling circus. But between working the grape harvest in Delano, California, with her older siblings under dangerous conditions; taking care of her younger siblings and Mamá, who has mysteriously fallen ill; and doing everything she can to avoid Papá's volatile temper, it's hard to hold...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2022
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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 LehManning, Peyton.
Summary: During a trip to visit both sets of grandparents in Mississippi, brothers Eli, Cooper, and Peyton, and their father, former NFL star Archie Manning, take advantage of every opportunity to play football, practice plays, or play sports trivia games.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2009
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Summary: Describes the events leading up to and occurring during the lockout and strike of railroad workers working for the Pullman Palace Car Company in 1894, and its impact upon American labor unions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morgan Reynolds Pub. 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 331.892 LAUDonoso, Raquel
Summary: Since the day she was born, Viva's voice has always been the mightiest in the room. But when Papi's bus driver union goes on strike, quiet Papi is the family member who must speak up. He feels nervous, but Viva's strength gives Papi the courage he needs to find his own powerful voice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kind World Publishing 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DONWilson, Karma.
Summary: The zoo animals go on strike until the tears of a disappointed little girl make them realize that they actually like what they do.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E WilMarkel, Michelle.
Summary: An illustrated account of immigrant Clara Lemlich's pivotal role in the influential 1909 women laborer's strike describes how she worked grueling hours to acquire an education and support her family before organizing a massive walkout to protest the unfair working conditions in New York's garment district.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J331.892 MARBurns, 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 1987Russell, 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...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction 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: 2019
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: Book Club Kit 207 FIC RUSSummary: Chronicles the 1973 Harlan County, Kentucky coal miners' strike against the operators of the Brookside mine and the Duke Power Company, which resulted from the company's refusal to honor the national contract of the United Mine Workers of America when the miners joined the union.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD 331.89 HARAlessandri, Alexandra
Summary: "English just feels wrong to Isabel. She prefers her native Spanish. As she prepares for a new school, she knows she's going to have to learn. Her first day is uncomfortable, until she employs her crayons and discovers there's more than one way to communicate with new friends"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ALEHaddix, Margaret Peterson.
Summary: In 1927, at the urging of twenty-one-year-old Harriet, Mrs. Livingston reluctantly recalls her experiences at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory, including miserable working conditions that led to a strike, then the fire that took the lives of her two best friends when Harriet, the boss's daughter, was only five years old.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2007
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Haddix 2007Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HADRedniss, 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 REDPaterson, Katherine.
Summary: Jake and Rosa, two children, form an unlikely friendship as they try to survive and understand the 1912 Bread and Roses strike of mill workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 2006
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT FICTION PatersonRussell, 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