Questions for your reply to conference attendees: What role did the nonhuman env

Questions for your reply to conference attendees:
What role did the nonhuman environment play in the strike you focus on?
How did the need to use certain kinds of technologies to extract the ore from hard rock drive the cultural and social settings in the place you researched?
Can we say with some authority that the environment determined the rise of labor activism in this place and time or is that going too far?
How does your work reinforce, contradict and/or build on Peck’s arguments in his article?