Research Catalog

Title

Labouring Finns : transnational politics in Finland, Canada, and the United States / edited by Michel S. Beaulieu, Ronald N. Harpelle, Jaimi Penney.

Publication

Turku : Institute of Migration, 2011.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Beaulieu, Michel S.
• Harpelle, Ronald N., 1957-
• Penney, Jaimi.
• Finn Forum (9th : 2010 : Thunder Bay, Ont.)

Description

196 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

"One of the most interesting chapters in the twentieth century history of the Finnish working class is the role these labouring men and women played in shaping the political and social culture of the communities they were a part of. The working class in Finland and their Finnish counterparts in Canada and the United States made a difference wherever they went. Significantly, labouring Finns maintained strong ties between Finland and the communities they established in North America, and these were ties that bound them together in a fight for justice that had its roots in the turmoil of Finland's long struggle for freedom. As the contributors to this volume demonstrate, Finnish workers in Finland and North America contributed significantly to the development of socialism in the political arenas they found themselves in. In North America, the influence of Finns in the political process added an ethnic dimension to the ever-changing nature and character of socialism. As a consequence, underneath the class conflict of the early twentieth century in North America was a more pronounced interclass struggle characterized by ethnic differences rather than material interests. Labouring Finns is a book about the role Finns played in these struggles at home and abroad."--lakeheadu.academia.edu/MichelBeaulieu/Books.

Series Statement

Migration studies, 0356-780X ; C 20

Uniform Title

Migration studies ; C 20.

Alternative Title

Transnational politics in Finland, Canada, and the United States

Subject

• Working class > Finland > Congresses
• Social movements > Finland > Congresses
• Transnationalism > Congresses
• Blue collar workers > Political activity > Finland > Congresses
• Immigrants > Cultural assimilation > Finland > United States > Congresses
• Immigrants > Cultural assimilation > Finland > Canada > Congresses
• Immigrants > Political activity > Finland > United States > Congresses
• Immigrants > Political activity > Finland > Canada > Congresses
• Labor unions and socialism > Finland > Congresses
• Labor unions and socialism > United States > Congresses
• Labor unions and socialism > Canada > Congresses
• Finns > Cultural assimilation > United States > Congresses
• Finns > Cultural assimilation > Canada > Congresses

Note

• Papers presented at the 9. FinnForum held May, 2010, Thunder Bay, Ontario Canada.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• Introduction : The Finnish Workers' experience at home and abroad in historical perspective [labor, laboring Finns, working class] -- 1. Between autocracy and revolution : formation of the Finnish nation state, 1890-1926 / Aapo Kahonen -- 2. Transnational socialist imagination : the connections between Finnish socialists in the USA and Finland at the turn of the 20th century [socialism] / Ralf Kauranen & Mikko Pollari -- 3. American impact on Finnish communism in the 1920s / Tauno Saarela -- 4. Finnish in the Communist Party in the upper mid-western United States -- 5. Forging a unique solidarity : Finnish immigrant socialists and the early 20th century Socialist Party of America [Tyomies publishing, newspapers, periodicals, 1913-14 Michigan copper strike, 1916 Minnesota Iron ore strike] / Gary Kaunonen
• 6. Tanner, Pasanen, and Laukki : emissaries of labour reform and ethnic integration [Minnesota Mesabi range, miners, Antero Tanner, Ida Pasanen [suffrage, women's rights], strikes, Leo Laukki] / Paul Lubotina -- 7. A. B. Makela as a political commentator in early twentieth century Canada / J. Donald Wilson -- 8. "A socialist movement which does not attract the women cannot live" : Finnish socialist women in Port Arthur, 1903-1933 [now Thunder Bay, Northwestern Ontario] / Samira Saramo -- 9. Between Minnesota rock and a hard place -- Matt Halberg as an example of Southern Ostrobothnian immigration to the United States / Tumoas Savonen

Call Number

JFF 13-969

ISBN

• 9789525889215 (pbk.)
• 9525889211 (pbk.)

OCLC

799276553

Title

Labouring Finns : transnational politics in Finland, Canada, and the United States / edited by Michel S. Beaulieu, Ronald N. Harpelle, Jaimi Penney.

Imprint

Turku : Institute of Migration, 2011.

Series

Migration studies, 0356-780X ; C 20

Migration studies ; C 20.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Beaulieu, Michel S.

Harpelle, Ronald N., 1957-

Penney, Jaimi.

Finn Forum (9th : 2010 : Thunder Bay, Ont.)

Research Call Number

JFF 13-969