The Women of the Copper Country: A Novel

What do the women of the copper country do while the men are down in the pits mining? It takes no great imagination to picture them cooking, cleaning, mending, caring for children, and, if in much less dangerous conditions, generally working just as hard as their men.

According to Russell, though, they also organized. At least in Calumet, Michigan they did. When male union organizers got very little traction with the workers of the Calumet-Hecl...read more

If you are old enough to remember the story of Norma Rae, this book will speak to you. This is the story of copper miners in Michigan and the struggles they live through. Juxtaposed to that is the wealthy and how they use money to influence what we read in the papers.