"Based on the most thorough base of documentary evidence that any study of this strike has engaged, Flames of Discontent breaks significant new ground in exploring, narrating, and interpreting one of the most important strikes in Minnesota history. Gary Kaunonen weaves his primary sources together so effectively that his readers are transported to 1916 and feel that we are listening in person to workers' meetings, picket lines, and tavern debates."-Peter Rachleff, East Side Freedom Library, St. Paul"The events of this time have been soaked in nostalgia for a century, but Gary Kaunonen goes beyond the myths and conventional wisdom to dig out the raw emotion and surprising details of a strike that changed the American labor movement and the rise of the Middle Class."-Aaron Brown, author, instructor, and host of the Great Northern Radio Show"Gary Kaunonen is moving toward his mission to help working-class voices from the past be heard."-International Falls Journal "Kaunonen has accomplished writing a bottom-up history of a major and relatively unknown industrial strike and thereby ‘posthumously restor[ing] agency to members of Minnesota’s working class’ (p. 3). In the process, he has chronicled an important chapter in American immigration and labor history, enhancing knowledge in both fields."-Journal of American History "... perhaps most impressively, Kaunonen shows how understanding our past and how we got here can help guide us through the similar challenges we face today."-Middle West Review "Using a combination of municipal records, personal recollections, oral history, corporate records, family records, newspapers, and secondary accounts, the book captures a sense of turn-of-the-century life in northern Minnesota’s mining communities. "-H-Net Reviews
