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- Title
Children of Labor (Motion Picture).
- Authors
Steffen, Robert A.; Weinberg, Sydney Stahl
- Abstract
The article presents information the video recording "Children of Labor: A Finnish-American History." This recording touches on the activities of Finnish workers in miners' strikes, the Socialist and Communist parties, and their major role in the creation of the co-operative movement. One learns through this recording that Finland was a grand duchy of the Soviet Union and that many Finnish men fled to avoid conscription into the Russian army. What one does not learn is that Finland was dominated during most of its existence by Sweden, then by the Soviet Union, with both trying to impose their culture and political control, thus giving rise to an intense nationalism among Finns. The radicalism of Finnish women is also raised and then dropped. The recording shows that they took the unusual step of establishing their own press, ostensibly because they were tired of just making coffee for the men. According to the authors, perhaps the film attempts to do too much in too little time. It traces the history of Finnish-Americans through the 1920s, when the co-operative movement split apart and into the 1930's, when 10,000 Finnish-Americans emigrated to the Soviet Union.
- Subjects
SOVIET Union; FINLAND; CHILDREN of Labor (Film); VIDEOS; MINERS; COOPERATION; RADICALISM
- Publication
Labor Studies Journal, 1982, Vol 7, Issue 2, p183
- ISSN
0160-449X
- Publication type
Entertainment Review