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

Lankton, Larry

ISBN 10: 0195083571 / ISBN 13: 9780195083576

Edité par Oxford University Press, 1993

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Synopsis :

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.

À propos de l'auteur: Larry Lankton is the Associate Professor of History at Michigan Technological University.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Cradle to Grave: Life, Work, and Death at ...
Éditeur : Oxford University Press
Date d'édition : 1993
Reliure : Paperback
Etat : Very Good