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