Title:
Mexican workers and the making of Arizona / edited by Luis F. B. Plascencia and Gloria H. Cuádraz.
Author:
Plascencia, Luis F. B., editor.
Cuádraz, Gloria, editor.
Publication Information:
Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, [2018]
Call Number:
HD8081.M6 M48 2018
Abstract:
"An insightful examination of how Mexican labor has built Arizona, this book focuses on workers' lives and experiences"--Provided by publisher.
ISBN:
9780816531868
Physical Description:
viii, 389 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Contents:
Contextualizing Mexican labor and Arizona's national importance -- Arizona's six Cs and Mexicana/o labor -- Lost land and México lindo: origins of Mexicans in Arizona's Salt River Valley, 1865-1910 / mobilization and immobilization of "legally imported aliens": cottonin the Salt River Valley, 1917-1921 / "Get us our privilege of bringing in Mexican labor": recruitment and desire for Mexican labor in Arizona, 1917-2017 / Mexicano miners, dual wage, and the pursuit of wage equality in Miami, Arizona / Mexican American women workers in mid-twentieth-century Phoenix / Morenci miners women's auxiliary during the Great Arizona Copper Strike, 1983-1986 / Constructing Arizona: the lives and labor of Mexicans in the Valley of the Sun
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