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Book Review
Anaconda: Labor, Community, and Culture in Montana's Smelter City. By Laurie Mercier. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001. xiv, 300 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-252-02657-8. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-252-06988-9.)
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Few places better represent the trajectory of American industrialism than Anaconda, Montana. Home of the largest copper smelter in the world, Anaconda thrived for almost a century as a smoke-filled working-class town where a particular brand of "community unionism" held sway from the 1930s to the 1960s. Laurie Mercier's Anaconda is a fascinating study that shows how gender relations and regional identities shaped working-class consciousness and industrial communities. |
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