The 1913-14 Michigan Copper Strike and Italian Hall Book Project: Upcoming Talk

Monday, May 6, 2013

Upcoming Talk

1913-2013: A Century of Solidarity

I (Gary) will be speaking at the upcoming Houghton County Democratic Party's annual dinner and awards banquet. Scott Dianda, a member of Michigan State Employees Association union and current Michigan State Representative, will be speaking along with former state senator Mike Prussi and Michigan Education Association director Terry Lajuenesse. I'm not always encouraged by party politics, but I voted for and strongly endorsed the "Union" candidate Scott Dianda, and am excited to meet him this Saturday.

A link to their event, and ticket sales information: http://www.houghtoncountydems.org/Houghton_County_Democratic_Party/Main.html

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Gary Kaunonen

Gary Kaunonen did his undergrad at MSU-Mankato; then 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, social justice, public history, and working class rhetoric. His Master’s thesis was on Finnish American labor history in Michigan. He is the author of two books published by Michigan State University Press, one of which won the 2010 Historical Society of Michigan Book Award. He also co-authored "Industrial Calumet" for the NPS, which won an award from Association of Partners for Public Lands. Before academic life, Kaunonen worked in industrial jobs in a foundry and welding shop. Recently, he's worked for Keweenaw National Historical Park, as a freelance historian, as the Archivist, Historian and Collections Development Coordinator at the Finnish American Historical Archive, and adjunct faculty at Keweenaw Bay Ojibwa Community College. Currently he is the Assistant Director of Michigan Tech's Writing Program, a Graduate Teaching Instructor, and a PhD student at Michigan Tech in the Rhetoric and Technical Communication program.

Aaron Goings

Aaron Goings is an assistant professor of history at Saint Martin’s University in Lacey, Washington, where he teaches courses on research methods and United States Social History. A longtime resident of Grays Harbor, Washington, Aaron’s interest in the Copper Country stems from his earlier studies of Finnish-American labor history in the Pacific Northwest, and the similarities between the ethnic and labor history of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan with Washington’s Olympic Peninsula. His scholarly interests include labor and the left, Pacific Northwest History, and history of the lumber industry. His dissertation "Red Harbor: Class, Violence, and Community in Grays Harbor, Washington," was completed at Simon Fraser University in 2011. He credits his interest in labor and radical history to his working-class upbringing, which included many hours on picket lines and participating in Labor Day parades. Aaron notes that in Grays Harbor people still consider it to be a major offense to cross picket lines.

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Monday, May 6, 2013

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