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Summary: U.K. gay activists work to assist miners during their extended strike of the National Union of Mineworkers in the summer of 1984.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY PRI

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PRI

Kaunonen, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2013

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 977.49 KAU

Lehto, Steve.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Momentum Books 2006

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.499 LEH
1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977.4 LEH

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Crime Mur Lehto

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 977 Leh

Comstock, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: L. Comstock 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CLEMENC, ANNIE COM

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: B CLEMENC COM

Summary: "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

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF BIS

Markel, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray 2013

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 LEM

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Fiction Markel

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J331.892 MAR

Stanley, Jerry

Summary: The story of Annie Clemenc and the 1913 strike by copper miners employed by the Calumet & Hecla Mining Company in upper Michigan.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 1995

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 CLE

Maki, Wilbert B.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: [s.n.] 1983

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 331.89 Maki,

Summary: 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

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD 331.89 HAR

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HAR

Watkins, Steve

Summary: "The true story of the West Virginia coal miners who ignited the largest labor uprising in American history"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 331.892 WAT

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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2000

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC DUR

Wasek, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Wasek,] 2011

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WAS

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