Author: Patrick F. MorrisPublisher: Swann Publishing
ISBN: 9780965720922
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Anaconda, Montana
Author: Patrick F. MorrisPublisher: Swann Publishing
ISBN: 9780965720922
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Anaconda
Author: Laurie MercierPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252069888
Category : Anaconda (Mont.)
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Mercier depicts the vibrant life of the smelter city at full steam, incorporating the candid, sometimes wry commentary of the locals ("the company furnished three pair of leather gloves . . . and all the arsenic dust] you could eat"). She documents the early history of the town and the distinctive culture of cooperation and activism that residents fostered in the 1930s and 1940s. Ultimately, their solidarity and discontent with the company converged in the successful 1934 strike and sustained five decades of devoted unionism. During the cold war years, Anacondans held to their communal values and to unions in the face of antilabor and anticommunist pressures, embracing an "alternative Americanism" that championed improved living standards for working people, rather than unlimited corporate power, as the best defense against communism. Mercier chronicles the bitter struggle between two rival unions--the anticommunist United Steelworkers of America and the red-tainted International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers--that undercut the town's labor solidarity in the postwar years. She also explores how gender definitions--especially the male breadwinner ideology and the limits placed on women's political, economic, and social roles--shaped the nature and outcome of labor struggles. Mercier carries her investigation through the closing of the smelter in 1980, covering debates over the environment and the community's transformation into a deindustrialized, nonunion town. Underscoring the role of the community in molding working-class consciousness, Anaconda offers important insights about the changing nature of working-class culture and the real potential for collective action under the midday sun of American industrial capitalism.
Smoke Wars
Author: Donald MacMillanPublisher: Montana Historical Society
ISBN: 9780917298653
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Smoke Wars traces the campaign against air pollution in southwestern Montana from the fight to abolish open-heap roasting--a process that created dense clouds of low-lying, noxious smoke and caused death rates in Butte to exceed those of New York City--to the battle against toxic emissions released from the great stacks of the Anaconda Reduction Works. This landmark environmental study raises issues of corporate responsibility, the rights of citizens, and the costs of industrialization, issues still hotly contested today.
Official Proceedings
Author: Western Federation of MinersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Hiking the Anaconda-Pintler Wilderness
Author: Mort ArkavaPublisher:
ISBN: 9780967751801
Category : Anaconda-Pintler Wilderness (Mont.)
Languages : en
Pages : 139
Book Description
Copper Chorus
Author: Dennis L. SwiboldPublisher: Montana Historical Society
ISBN: 9780975919606
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
This is the first book devoted to Montana's long history of industrial newspaper ownership and the consequences for democracy. The work also reveals the costs paid by owners and their journalists, whose credibility eroded as their increasingly constricted newspapers lapsed into ambivalence and indifference. The story offers a timeless study of the conflict between commerce and the notion of a free and independent press.
Master Register of Bicentennial Projects, February 1976
Author: American Revolution Bicentennial AdministrationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American Revolution Bicentennial, 1976
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Official Proceedings of the ... Annual Convention
Author: International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter WorkersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Iron and steel workers
Languages : en
Pages : 1304
Book Description
Amendments to Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indian land transfers
Languages : en
Pages : 1862
Book Description
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