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Cradle to Grave

Life, Work, and Death at the Lake Superior Copper Mines

Autor: Larry Lankton

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Legare: Carte broșată

Editura: Oxford University Press Inc

Disponibilitate: În depozitul extern

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Concentrating on technology, economics, labor, and social history, Cradle to Grave documents the ful...

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Autor

Larry Lankton

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Carte broșată

Publicat

1993

Pagini

352

EAN

9780195083576

ISBN

0195083571

Enbook ID

04513174

Editura

Oxford University Press Inc

Greutate

594

Dimensiuni

155 x 235 x 20

Descriere completă

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.