Cornish Records of Northern Michigan Copper Mines
Title | Cornish Records of Northern Michigan Copper Mines PDF eBook |
Author | |
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Pages | 8 |
Release | 19?? |
Genre | Cornwall (England : County) |
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Cornish in Michigan
Title | Cornish in Michigan PDF eBook |
Author | Russell M. Magnaghi |
Publisher | Discovering the Peoples of Mic |
Pages | 116 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | History |
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Several ethnic groups have come to Michigan from the British Isles. Each group of immigrants from this region--the Cornish, English, Irish, and Welsh--has played a significant role in American history. Historic records show that some early nineteenth-century Cornish immigrants were farmers and settled in the Lower Peninsula of Michigan. However, the majority of early Cornish immigrants were miners, and much of their influence was felt in the Upper Peninsula of the state. Many of the underground miners from Cornwall got their start in this region before they migrated to other mining regions throughout the United States. Hard-working families came from throughout the peninsula of Cornwall, bringing their history, recipes, songs, religions, and other traditions to Michigan's northern mining country. This nineteenth-century migration brought them to new homes in Keweenaw County, Houghton County, Copper Harbor, Eagle Harbor, and Presque Isle. In the 1830s, newly arrived immigrants also settled in the lower parts of Michigan, in Macomb, Washtenaw, Lenawee, and Oakland counties. The automobile boom of the 1920s sent many of these immigrants and their children to Metro Detroit from the Upper Peninsula, where their traditions are perpetuated today.
Beyond the Boundaries
Title | Beyond the Boundaries PDF eBook |
Author | Larry Lankton |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 1999-05-06 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780199761159 |
Spanning the years 1840-1875, Beyond the Boundaries focuses on the settlement of Upper Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula, telling the story of reluctant pioneers who attempted to establish a decent measure of comfort, control, and security in what was in many ways a hostile environment. Moving beyond the technological history of the period found in his previous book Cradle to the Grave: Life, Work, and Death at the Lake Superior Copper Mines (OUP 1991), Lankton here focuses on the people of this region and how the copper mining affected their daily lives. A truly first-rate social history, Beyond the Boundaries will appeal to historians of the frontier and of Michigan and the Great Lakes region, as well as historians of technology, labor, and everyday life.
Cradle to Grave : Life, Work, and Death at the Lake Superior Copper Mines
Title | Cradle to Grave : Life, Work, and Death at the Lake Superior Copper Mines PDF eBook |
Author | Larry Lankton Associate Professor of History Michigan Technological University |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 352 |
Release | 1991-03-07 |
Genre | Copper industry and trade |
ISBN | 9780199762613 |
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.
Cradle to Grave
Title | Cradle to Grave PDF eBook |
Author | Larry Lankton |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 568 |
Release | 1993-02-25 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 019028207X |
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.
The Cornish Miner in America
Title | The Cornish Miner in America PDF eBook |
Author | Arthur Cecil Todd |
Publisher | Arthur H. Clark Company |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 1967 |
Genre | Social Science |
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The 1913-1914 Copper Strike of Northern Michigan
Title | The 1913-1914 Copper Strike of Northern Michigan PDF eBook |
Author | Chiou-ling Yeh |
Publisher | |
Pages | 242 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Copper Miners' Strike, Mich., 1913-1914 |
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