4/12/2011 View North Country, WP 5 due, "Who are the Working Poor?"
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Working Class Wisdom
"I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator."—Mother Jones (woman on the right in photo)
About this Class
About the Instructor
- Gary Kaunonen
- My interests in social and working class history come from my grandfathers having worked in the mines of the Mesabi Iron Range. I take pride in researching, writing and participating in working class issues. Did my undergrad at MSU-Mankato; did a Masters at Michigan Tech, studying Industrial History and Archaeology. Research interests: immigration, labor and social history, industrial communities, material culture of the working class and working class rhetoric. My Master’s thesis was on Finnish American labor history in Michigan. I have two books coming out from Michigan State U-Press and I co-authored Industrial Calumet for the NPS, which won an award from Association of Partners for Public Lands. Before academic life, I worked at a plastics factory, charged blast furnaces in an iron foundry and welded steel and aluminum boat docks. Recently, I've worked for Keweenaw Nat Hist Park, Div of Interp and Ed, as a freelance historian and as the Archivist, Historian and Collections Development Coordinator at the Finnish American Historical Archive. Also adjunct faculty Keweenaw Bay Ojibwa Community College. Currently first year PhD student, MTU, in Rhetoric and Technical Communication.
List of Working Class Sites
Stuff to Know
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