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The Clifton-Morenci Strike

Author : James R. Kluger
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816535299
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book The Clifton-Morenci Strike written by James R. Kluger and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The strike that paralyzed the mining camps of Clifton and Morenci during 1915–16 and gained nationwide attention was one of the most remarkable that ever occurred in the West. During an era when physical violence, death, and property destruction were almost accepted elements of Western labor difficulties, this walkout was peaceful. With few exceptions, law and order continually predominated. This, then, is the seldom-seen side, a positive side, to a state's labor history. Coming at a time when western labor was purging itself of radicalism and recharting its goals, the Clifton-Morenci strike may well have been that "milestone" in organized labor's groping for recognition in the West. Violence did not erupt—this notable absence of bloodshed thereby making the strike unique in that time of industrial turbulence. Kluger's answer to the question of why and how peace prevailed is significant reading. Strikers and managers hurled charges at each other, but both sides showed restraint when it came to action. When negotiations reached an impasse, Governor George W. P. Hunt moved to prevent the managers from importing strike-breakers. At the same time, the Department of Labor entered the situation, and the rise in copper prices and loss of wages made a settlement desirable for both sides. When the mine whistles blew on January 26, 1916, to signal the end of the strike, the repercussions of the events of 1915 were still to be felt. Author Kluger traces how the strike affected working conditions, wages, and the cause of unionism in the district. Overall, he provides insight into feelings concerning the fears of management regarding unionism, and labor's manner of making itself heard during these years. Western historians, labor historians, and all those concerned with labor relations will recognize the importance of this highly readable work.

Clifton-Morenci Strike, 1915-16.

Author : George Wylie Paul Hunt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Clifton-Morenci Strike, 1915-16. written by George Wylie Paul Hunt and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Clifton-Morenci Strike of 1915-1916

Author : James R. Kluger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Clifton-Morenci Strike of 1915-1916 written by James R. Kluger and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Clifton-Morenci Strike

Author : James R. Kluger
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816548021
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book The Clifton-Morenci Strike written by James R. Kluger and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The strike that paralyzed the mining camps of Clifton and Morenci during 1915–16 and gained nationwide attention was one of the most remarkable that ever occurred in the West. During an era when physical violence, death, and property destruction were almost accepted elements of Western labor difficulties, this walkout was peaceful. With few exceptions, law and order continually predominated. This, then, is the seldom-seen side, a positive side, to a state's labor history. Coming at a time when western labor was purging itself of radicalism and recharting its goals, the Clifton-Morenci strike may well have been that "milestone" in organized labor's groping for recognition in the West. Violence did not erupt—this notable absence of bloodshed thereby making the strike unique in that time of industrial turbulence. Kluger's answer to the question of why and how peace prevailed is significant reading. Strikers and managers hurled charges at each other, but both sides showed restraint when it came to action. When negotiations reached an impasse, Governor George W. P. Hunt moved to prevent the managers from importing strike-breakers. At the same time, the Department of Labor entered the situation, and the rise in copper prices and loss of wages made a settlement desirable for both sides. When the mine whistles blew on January 26, 1916, to signal the end of the strike, the repercussions of the events of 1915 were still to be felt. Author Kluger traces how the strike affected working conditions, wages, and the cause of unionism in the district. Overall, he provides insight into feelings concerning the fears of management regarding unionism, and labor's manner of making itself heard during these years. Western historians, labor historians, and all those concerned with labor relations will recognize the importance of this highly readable work.

Holding the Line

Author : Barbara Kingsolver
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801465176
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Holding the Line written by Barbara Kingsolver and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-05 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Holding the Line, Barbara Kingsolver's first non-fiction book, is the story of women's lives transformed by an a signal event. Set in the small mining towns of Arizona, it is part oral history and part social criticism, exploring the process of empowerment which occurs when people work together as a community. Like Kingsolver's award-winning novels, Holding the Line is a beautifully written book grounded on the strength of its characters. Hundreds of families held the line in the 1983 strike against Phelps Dodge Copper in Arizona. After more than a year the strikers lost their union certification, but the battle permanently altered the social order in these small, predominantly Hispanic mining towns. At the time the strike began, many women said they couldn't leave the house without their husband's permission. Yet, when injunctions barred union men from picketing, their wives and daughters turned out for the daily picket lines. When the strike dragged on and men left to seek jobs elsewhere, women continued to picket, organize support, and defend their rights even when the towns were occupied by the National Guard. "Nothing can ever be the same as it was before," said Diane McCormick of the Morenci Miners Women's Auxiliary. "Look at us. At the beginning of this strike, we were just a bunch of ladies."

The Clifton-Morenci Strike

Author : James R. Kluge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Clifton-Morenci Strike written by James R. Kluge and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction

Author : Linda Gordon
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674061713
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction written by Linda Gordon and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-09 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1904, New York nuns brought forty Irish orphans to a remote Arizona mining camp, to be placed with Catholic families. The Catholic families were Mexican, as was the majority of the population. Soon the town's Anglos, furious at this "interracial" transgression, formed a vigilante squad that kidnapped the children and nearly lynched the nuns and the local priest. The Catholic Church sued to get its wards back, but all the courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, ruled in favor of the vigilantes. The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction tells this disturbing and dramatic tale to illuminate the creation of racial boundaries along the Mexican border. Clifton/Morenci, Arizona, was a "wild West" boomtown, where the mines and smelters pulled in thousands of Mexican immigrant workers. Racial walls hardened as the mines became big business and whiteness became a marker of superiority. These already volatile race and class relations produced passions that erupted in the "orphan incident." To the Anglos of Clifton/Morenci, placing a white child with a Mexican family was tantamount to child abuse, and they saw their kidnapping as a rescue. Women initiated both sides of this confrontation. Mexican women agreed to take in these orphans, both serving their church and asserting a maternal prerogative; Anglo women believed they had to "save" the orphans, and they organized a vigilante squad to do it. In retelling this nearly forgotten piece of American history, Linda Gordon brilliantly recreates and dissects the tangled intersection of family and racial values, in a gripping story that resonates with today's conflicts over the "best interests of the child."

Copper Crucible

Author : Jonathan D. Rosenblum
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801485541
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (855 download)

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Download or read book Copper Crucible written by Jonathan D. Rosenblum and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this second edition of his in-depth and gripping account of the Arizona Miners' Strike of 1983, Jonathan D. Rosenblum describes in a new epilogue the resurgence of union activism at Steelworkers Local 890 in Silver City, New Mexico, more than a decade since the devastating campaign waged by the Phelps Dodge Corporation to obliterate the unions at its Arizona properties.

Strike Conditions in Arizona

Author : Norman Carmichael
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (125 download)

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Download or read book Strike Conditions in Arizona written by Norman Carmichael and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Review of strikes in the Clifton-Morenci mining district in Arizona.

Race and Labor in Western Copper

Author : Philip J. Mellinger
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816514771
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Race and Labor in Western Copper written by Philip J. Mellinger and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1995-04 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of immigrant copper workers and their attempts to organize at the turn of the century in Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, and El Paso, Texas. These Mexican and European laborers of widely varying backgrounds and languages had little social, economic, or political power. Yet they achieved some surprising successes in their struggles - all in the face of a racist society and the unbridled power of the mine owners. Mellinger discusses towns, mines, camps, companies, and labor unions, but this book is largely about people. In order to reconstruct the lives of those in mining communities, Mellinger has used little-known union and company records, personal interviews with old-time workers and their families, and a variety of regional sources that together have enabled him to reveal a complex and significant pattern of social, economic, and political change in the American West.

Basis of Settlement Clifton-Morenci-Metcalf Strike

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 11 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (773 download)

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Download or read book Basis of Settlement Clifton-Morenci-Metcalf Strike written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Morenci Marines

Author : Kyle Longley
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700621105
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The Morenci Marines written by Kyle Longley and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1966, nine young men left the Arizona desert mining camp of Morenci to serve their country in the far-flung jungles of Vietnam, in danger zones from Hue to Khe Sanh. Ultimately, only three survived. Each battled survivor’s guilt, difficult re-entries into civilian life, and traumas from personally experiencing war—and losing close friends along the way. Such stories recurred throughout America, but the Morenci Marines stood out. ABC News and Time magazine recounted their moving tale during the war, and, in 2007, the Arizona Republic selected the “Morenci Nine” as the most important veterans’ story in state history. Returning to the soldiers’ Morenci roots, Kyle Longley’s account presents their story as unique by setting and circumstance, yet typical of the sacrifices borne by small towns all across America. His narrative spotlights a generation of young people who joined the military during the tumultuous 1960s and informs a later generation of the hard choices made, many with long-term consequences. The story of the Morenci Marines also reflects that of their hometown: a company town dominated by the Phelps Dodge Mining Corporation, where the company controlled lives and the labor strife was legendary. The town’s patriotic citizens saw Vietnam as a just cause, moving Clive Garcia’s mother to say, “He died for this cause of freedom.” Yet while their sons fought and sent home their paychecks, Phelps Dodge sought to destroy the union that kept families afloat, pushing the government to end a strike that it said undermined the war effort. Morenci was also a place where cultures intermingled, and the nine friends included three Mexican Americans and one Native American. Longley reveals how their backgrounds affected their decisions to join and also helped the survivors cope, with Mike Cranford racing his Harley on back roads at high speeds while Joe Sorrelman tried to deal with demons of war through Navajo rituals. Drawing on personal interviews and correspondence that sheds new light on the Morenci Nine, Longley has written a book as much about loss, grief, and guilt as about the battlefield. It makes compelling reading for anyone who lived in that era—and for anyone still seeing family members go off to fight in controversial wars.

The Phelps Dodge Strike

Author : United Steelworkers of America. Local 616 (Clifton, Ariz.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 12 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book The Phelps Dodge Strike written by United Steelworkers of America. Local 616 (Clifton, Ariz.) and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publication of the Morenci Miners' Union to describe the Phelps Dodge Strike situation as of May, 1984. Includes strike timeline, updates to supporters, and

"Strikitos"

Author : Andrea Yvette Huginnie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book "Strikitos" written by Andrea Yvette Huginnie and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

State Out of the Union

Author : Jeff Biggers
Publisher : Bold Type Books
ISBN 13 : 1568587023
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (685 download)

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Download or read book State Out of the Union written by Jeff Biggers and published by Bold Type Books. This book was released on 2012-09-25 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the biggest issues facing Arizona--including immigration, guns, health care, the Tea Party and vigilantism--and how a radicalized Arizona has become a national bellwether.

1983-84 Union Strike Against Phelps-Dodge

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (969 download)

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Download or read book 1983-84 Union Strike Against Phelps-Dodge written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects newspaper and periodical articles from across Arizona reporting on the two-year miners' strike against Phelps-Dodge Corporation in Morenci.

Transborder Lives

Author : Lynn Stephen
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822389965
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (899 download)

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Download or read book Transborder Lives written by Lynn Stephen and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2007-06-13 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lynn Stephen’s innovative ethnography follows indigenous Mexicans from two towns in the state of Oaxaca—the Mixtec community of San Agustín Atenango and the Zapotec community of Teotitlán del Valle—who periodically leave their homes in Mexico for extended periods of work in California and Oregon. Demonstrating that the line separating Mexico and the United States is only one among the many borders that these migrants repeatedly cross (including national, regional, cultural, ethnic, and class borders and divisions), Stephen advocates an ethnographic framework focused on transborder, rather than transnational, lives. Yet she does not disregard the state: She assesses the impact migration has had on local systems of government in both Mexico and the United States as well as the abilities of states to police and affect transborder communities. Stephen weaves the personal histories and narratives of indigenous transborder migrants together with explorations of the larger structures that affect their lives. Taking into account U.S. immigration policies and the demands of both commercial agriculture and the service sectors, she chronicles how migrants experience and remember low-wage work in agriculture, landscaping, and childcare and how gender relations in Oaxaca and the United States are reconfigured by migration. She looks at the ways that racial and ethnic hierarchies inherited from the colonial era—hierarchies that debase Mexico’s indigenous groups—are reproduced within heterogeneous Mexican populations in the United States. Stephen provides case studies of four grass-roots organizations in which Mixtec migrants are involved, and she considers specific uses of digital technology by transborder communities. Ultimately Stephen demonstrates that transborder migrants are reshaping notions of territory and politics by developing creative models of governance, education, and economic development as well as ways of maintaining their cultures and languages across geographic distances.