Retrospection & Respect: The 1913-1914 Mining/Labor Strike Symposium of 2014

The proceedings for Retrospection & Respect: The 1913-1914 Mining/Labor Strike Symposium of 2014 are available below.

Retrospection & Respect: Michigan’s 1913-1914 Mining/Labor Strike Symposium was held in Houghton, Michigan,on April 11-12, 2014, on the occasion of the centennial of the cessation of the 1913-1914 Western Federation of Miners labor strike against copper mining companies in the Copper Country of Upper Michigan. Presenters explored the role of labor organizations in the historical and contemporary American and European mining industries, the effect of historical European immigration on labor organization, the impacts of early twentieth century labor organizational practices and strikes on American managerial practices in mining and other industries, and women’s activism in early twentieth century labor organization in mining and other industries, as well as other topics connecting issues of ethnicity, identity, class, gender, and other cultural divisions to civic discourse and the historic struggle for civil liberties within industry.

The symposium was co-sponsored by Michigan Technological University’s Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections, the Department of Social Sciences, and the Department of Humanities, the Keweenaw National Historical Park, and Finlandia University’s Finnish American Heritage Center and Historical Archives.