Mexican workers and the making of Arizona edited by Luis F.B. Plascencia and Gloria H. Cuádraz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cuádraz, Gloria, editor.

Plascencia, Luis F. B., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Foreign workers, Mexican--Arizona--History.

Foreign workers, Mexican.

Foreign workers, Mexican--Arizona--Economic conditions.

Foreign workers, Mexican--Arizona--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (pages :) map ;

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2018

Summary:

"An insightful examination of how Mexican labor has built Arizona, this book focuses on workers' lives and experiences"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Title page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Prologue: Contextualizing Mexican Labor and Arizona's National Importance

Introduction: Arizona's Six Cs and Mexicana/o Labor

1. Lost Land and México Lindo: Origins of Mexicans in Arizona's Salt River Valley, 1865-1910 / Jaime R. Águila and F. Arturo Rosales

2. The Mobilization and Immobilization of "Legally Imported Aliens": Cotton in the Salt River Valley, 1917-1921 / Gloria H. Cuádraz

3. "Get Us Our Privilege of Bringing in Mexican Labor": Recruitment and Desire for Mexican Labor in Arizona, 1917-2017 / Luis F. B. Plascencia

PHOTO ESSAY

4. Mexicano Miners, Dual Wage, and the Pursuit of Wage Equality in Miami, Arizona / Christine Marin and Luis F . B. Plascencia

5. Mexican American Women Workers in Mid-Twentieth-Century Phoenix / Jean Reynolds

6. The Morenci Miners Women's Auxiliary during the Great Arizona Copper Strike, 1983-1986 / Anna Ochoa O'Leary

7. Constructing Arizona: The Lives and Labor of Mexicans in the Valley of the Sun / Cristina Gallardo-Sanidad

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

References

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8165-3904-9

OCLC:

1048318571