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Article: Anaconda: Labor, Community, and Culture in Montana's Smelter City.(Book Review)
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- Oregon Historical Quarterly
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- September 22, 2002
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Anaconda: Labor, Community, and Culture in Montana's Smelter City By Laurie Mercier
University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 2001. Photographs, maps, tables, notes, bibliography, index. 314 pages. $49.95 cloth, $24.95 paper.
A 585-FOOT-HIGH SMOKESTACK casts a daunting shadow over Anaconda, Montana. The Big Stack is at once a symbol of a century of labor, industry, and organization and an icon of a deindustrialized community struggling for its place in a shifting global economy. The image provides a fitting opening and closing to Laurie Mercier's eloquent, multifaceted history of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company's smelter town. Mercier details Anaconda's ...