Mining Childhood
Growing Up In Butte, Montana, 1900-1960
by Janet L. Finn
published by Montana Historical Society Press
- Mining Childhood explores the social history of childhood in Butte, Montana, with particular attention to the lives of working-class children, whose families were most directly affected by the ups and downs of copper mining.
256 pages, 7.5 x 10.5, 103 b/w photos, index, glossary, 20 softcovers per case, Paperback
softcover
ISBN 10:
ISBN 13: 9780980129250
$24.95
RELEASE DATE
12/18/2012
- Offers a child’s-eye view of Butte, Montana, from 1900 to 1960, the years of Butte’s fame as the “Richest Hill on Earth.†Childhood accounts of work, play, family, schooling, ethnicity, and neighborhood life offer fresh perspectives on Butte.
| Mining Childhood
Growing Up In Butte, Montana, 1900-1960 |
| " Janet Finn has given voice to the children of Butte, Montana, and they are as gritty, tought, funny, and poignant as any characters in the history of the American West. By putting children at the heart of the story of Butte, Finn has shifted the ground of history, granting us a knee-high view into the social world of one of America's great mining towns."  - Mary Murphy, Professor of History, Montana State University and author of Mining Cultures: Men Women, and Leisure in Butte, 1914-41 |
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| Janet L. Finn is a Professor of Social Work at the University of Montana - Missoula and faculty member in the International Development Studies and Women and Gender Studies programs. She has authored and edited numerous books and articles about both Butte and childhood. | |