TY - BOOK ID - 134686648 TI - Challenge accepted : a Finnish immigrant response to industrial America in Michigan's copper country PY - 2010 SN - 1628951540 1609172086 9781609172084 9781628961546 1628961546 9781628951547 9780870138737 0870138731 PB - East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Finnish Americans KW - Immigrants KW - Working class KW - Labor unions KW - History. KW - Social life and customs. KW - Social conditions. KW - Työmies Publishing Company KW - Hancock (Mich.) KW - Ethnic relations. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:134686648 AB - The copper mines of Michigan's Copper Country, in the Upper Peninsula, were active for 150 years, from 1845 until 1995. Many of the mine workers attempted to unionize, in order to obtain better working conditions, wages, and hours. The Michigan miners were unsuccessful in their struggles with mine owners, which came to a climax in the 1913-14 Copper Country Strike. This nine-month battle between workers represented by the Western Federation of Miners (WFM) and the three major mining companies in the region took a particularly nasty turn on Christmas Eve, 1913, at a party for ER -