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

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Concentrating on technology, economics, labor, and social history, Cradle to Grave documents the full life cycle of one in every of The united states’s great mineral ranges from the 1840s to the 1960s. Lankton examines the workers’ world underground, but is equally concerned with the mining communities at the surface. For the first fifty years of development, these mining communities remained remarkably harmonious, even whilst new, large companies obliterated traditional types of organization and work within the industry. By 1890, on the other hand, the Lake Superior copper industry of upper Michigan began 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 specializes in social and labor history, dealing especially with the problem of how company paternalism exerted social keep an eye on over the work force. A social history of technology, Cradle to Grave will appeal to labor, social and business historians.

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