| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.1

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

An Injury to One. Directed by Travis Wilkerson. 2002; color and black and white; 53 minutes. Distributed by First Run/Icarus Films.
"The working class and the employing class have nothing in common." So begins the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) preamble and this film that portrays the background and aftermath of the 1917 lynching of IWW organizer Frank Little in Butte, Montana. Unknown to many outside Butte, labor and progressive activists in the northern Rockies have long trekked to Little's Butte gravesite to photograph or rub an imprint of his tombstone inscription: "Frank Little 1879–1917: Slain by Capitalist Interests for Organizing and Inspiring his Fellow Men." Details about Little's life and murder are sketchy, but An Injury to One explicitly links the Anaconda Copper Mining Company to subsequent labor repression, political control, and environmental devastation.	1
Filmmaker Travis Wilkerson invokes Dashiell Hammett's classic Red Harvest (1927), which is based on Hammett's experiences as a Pinkerton operative in Butte, to assume the dispassionate voice of a fictional detective to tell this crime story. However, the detached narrator communicates the film's clear point of view, which celebrates working-class struggles and condemns the corporate-political-media axis that crushed miners' dreams. Although monotonous by the end of the hour, this narrative style is a refreshing departure from the artificially "objective" talking heads that dominate the documentary form.	. . .

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