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The South Slavs of Michigan -- Slovenes, Croats, Serbs, Macedonians, and Bosnian Muslims -- are a microcosm of the immigration waves of southern and eastern Europeans who came to the United States between 1880 and 1924. History has almost forgotten these immigrants, who were instrumental in developing the large urban centers of Michigan and the United States, and who specifically contributed to development of the auto industry and struck in 1913-1914 for better working conditions in the copper mines of the Upper Peninsula. While labor problems were the primary obstacles confronting Michigan's South Slavs, the painful process of acculturation has since dimmed their very real accomplishments. As Daniel Cetinich shows, South Slavs helped shape both a regional and national civilization in North America with their hands, backs, feet, and the labor organizations they helped create.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social groups

• Full title: South Slavs in Michigan
• Author: Cetinich, Daniel (City College, San Francisco, USA)
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 80
• EAN: 9780870136436
• ISBN: 9780870136436
• ID: 06378485
• Publisher: Michigan State University Press
• Weight: 113 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 136 × 13 mm
• Date of publishing: 31. January 2003

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