{"product_id":"by-the-ore-docks-a-working-peoples-history-of-duluth-9780816646371","title":"By the Ore Docks: A Working People's History of Duluth","description":"Located on the shore of Lake Superior near the Iron Range of Minnesota and, for much of its history, the site of vast steel, lumber, and shipping industries, Duluth has been home to people who worked tirelessly in the rail yards, grain elevators, and harbor. Here, for the first time, \u003ci\u003eBy the Ore Docks\u003c\/i\u003e presents a compelling, full-length history of the people who built this port city and struggled for both the growth of the city and the rights of their fellow workers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eBy the Ore Docks, \u003c\/i\u003eRichard Hudelson and Carl Ross trace seventy years in the lives of Duluth's multi-ethnic working class--Scandinavians, Finns, Italians, Poles, Irish, Jews, and African Americans--and chronicle, along with the events of the times, the city's vibrant neighborhoods, religious traditions, and communities. But they also tell the dramatic story of how a populist worker's coalition challenged the \"legitimate American\" business interests of the city, including the major corporation U.S. Steel. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the Knights of Labor in the 1880s to the Industrial Workers of the World, the AFL and CIO, and the Democratic Farmer-Labor party, radical organizations and their immigrant visionaries put Duluth on the national map as a center in the fight for worker's rights--a struggle inflamed by major strikes in the copper and iron mines. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBy the Ore Docks \u003c\/i\u003eis at once an important history of Duluth and a story of its working people, common laborers as well as union activists like Ernie Pearson, journalist Irene Paull, and Communist party gubernatorial candidate Sam Davis. Hudelson and Ross reveal tension between Duluth's ethnic groups, while also highlighting the ability of the people to overcome those differences and shape the legacy of the city's unsettled and remarkable past. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRichard Hudelson is professor of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, Superior. He is the author of, among other works, \u003ci\u003eMarxism and Philosophy in the Twentieth Century \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e The Rise and Fall of Communism\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCarl Ross (1913-2004) was a labor activist and the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Finn Factor in American Labor, Culture, and Society\u003c\/i\u003e. He was director of the Twentieth-Century Radicalism in Minnesota Project of the Minnesota Historical Society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/02\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780816646371\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 360\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.03lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.92h x 5.98w x 0.76d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2007 pg. 124\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Richard Hudelson, Carl Ross","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45302222389429,"sku":"9780816646371","price":16.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_65604b2a-12f5-4dd9-b952-b84a3926b1e9.jpg?v=1744724706","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/by-the-ore-docks-a-working-peoples-history-of-duluth-9780816646371","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}