Mining Childhood: Growing Up in Butte, 1900-1960 by Finn, Janet

Mining Childhood: Growing Up in Butte, 1900-1960 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780980129250)

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Format: Paperback
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Mining Childhood: Growing Up in Butte, 1900-1960 by Finn, Janet

Mining Childhood: Growing Up in Butte, 1900-1960

$24.95
Mining Childhood: Growing Up in Butte, 1900-1960 by Finn, Janet

Mining Childhood: Growing Up in Butte, 1900-1960

$24.95
Format: Paperback
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Mining Childhood offers a fresh perspective on Montana history. Drawing from a broad range of archival materials and oral histories, the book offers a child's-eye view of key events in Butte's history and considers how social, political, and economic forces shaping life in Butte left their marks on children. With its rich stories, the book captures children's experiences of school, play, and work by exploring their joys and miseries, their keen impressions of life in Butte, and the varied lessons learned. These stories illuminate the meaning and purpose of mining life in Butte: people came in search of a better life for themselves, and they stayed and struggled in order to build a better life for their sons and daughters--living with the hardships and dangers of mining life so that their children might have a life beyond mining. Children were, quite simply, Butte's reason to be.

Author: Janet Finn
ISBN-10: 0980129257
ISBN-13: 9780980129250
Publisher: Montana Historical Society Press
Language: English
Published: 12/18/2012
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.80lbs
Size: 10.40h x 7.40w x 0.80d
By Janet Finn
By Janet Finn
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Janet L. Finn is professor of social work at the University of Montana and faculty member in the international development studies and gender studies departments. She has written extensively about Butte and childhood.

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