Cradle to Grave: Life, Work, and Death at the Lake Superior Copper Mines
"An exceptionally thoughtful, thorough and well-integrated account of labor, business, community and technological change in a fundamental sector of America's second industrial revolution."--Philip Scranton,Rutgers University"Precisely what is needed in the field:  a work which combines personal experience, community life, descriptions of work and a specific physical environment.  It allows readers to `feel' what life was like for these miners and their families."--Patrick Gagnon,Silver Lake College"Offers rich and thoughtful accounts of technological change as it transformed copper mining....Lankton has offered a penetrating exploration of an important sector of American mining and a model for exploring the interconnections of technological change, management policies, and workplace traditions during industrialization."--Technology and Culture"Will be quite useful to historians...for its many insights into the paternalistic approach to management, especially in its mediation of technological and economic change."--Industrial and Labor Relations Review"Should appeal to a large and varied audience....I recommend it to all readers who enjoy stories of the past."--Wisconsin Magazine of History