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Cradle to Grave: Life, Work, and Death at the Lake Superior Copper Mines. (book reviews)

Industrial and Labor Relations Review,  April, 1992  by Derickson, Alan

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Cradle to Grave is a study of industrial relations - and much else - and about the copper workings of the Keweenaw Peninsula of upper Michigan. It spans the entire lifecycle of this district, from the discovery of rich mineral deposits in the 1840s to the demise of extractive enterprise in the 1960s.

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Lankton aims to disprove the claim by Otis E. Young, Jr., that the Keweenaw has been ignored simply because its story is a dull one. In refutation, he offers not the drama of exciting events so much as the complexity of human contradictions. To this end, he intends his broadly conceived ...

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