Gary Kaunonen

Gary Kaunonen is an independent historian of labor and immigration and a documentary filmmaker based in International Falls, Minnesota. He is author of Finns in Michigan along with two award-winning books, Challenge Accepted: A Finnish Immigrant Response to Industrial America in Michigan's Copper Country and, with coauthor Aaron Goings, Community in Conflict: A Working-class History of the 1913-14 Michigan Copper Strike and the Italian Hall Tragedy . His documentary Northern Minnesota's Labor...See more

Gary Kaunonen is an independent historian of labor and immigration and a documentary filmmaker based in International Falls, Minnesota. He is author of Finns in Michigan along with two award-winning books, Challenge Accepted: A Finnish Immigrant Response to Industrial America in Michigan's Copper Country and, with coauthor Aaron Goings, Community in Conflict: A Working-class History of the 1913-14 Michigan Copper Strike and the Italian Hall Tragedy . His documentary Northern Minnesota's Labor Wars examines the 1916 and 1917 strikes in that region and their significance to World War I-era political deportations and repression. See less