Palomino : Clinton Jencks and Mexican-American Unionism in the American Southwest
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Working Class in American History
ISBN-10
0252037553
ISBN-13
9780252037559
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
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University of Illinois Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 2nd, 2013
Print length
304 Pages
Weight
636 grams
Dimensions
16.70 x 24.50 x 3.10 cms
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Relating to Latin / Hispanic US American peopleBiography: historical, political & militaryBiography: historical, political and militarySocial & cultural historyEthnic studies / EthnicityEthnic studiesHispanic & Latino studiesPolitical leaders & leadershipPolitical leaders and leadershipIndustrial relations, health & safetyIndustrial relations, occupational health and safetySocial and cultural history
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Highlights Clinton Jencks's dramatic influence on the history of labour culture in the American Southwest through a lifetime devoted to progress and change for the social good.
The first comprehensive biography of progressive labor organizer, peace worker, and economist Clinton Jencks (1918–2005), this book explores the life of one of the most important political and social activists to appear in the Southwestern United States in the twentieth century. A key figure in the radical International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers (IUMMSW) Local 890 in Grant County, New Mexico, Jencks was involved in organizing not only the mine workers but also their wives in the 1951 strike against the Empire Zinc Company. He was active in the production of the 1954 landmark labor film dramatizing the Empire Zinc strike, Salt of the Earth, which was heavily suppressed during the McCarthy era and led to Jencks''s persecution by the federal government.
Labor historian James J. Lorence examines the interaction between Jencks''s personal experience and the broader forces that marked the world and society in which he worked and lived. Following the work of Jencks and his equally progressive wife, Virginia Derr Jencks, Lorence illuminates the roots and character of Southwestern unionism, the role of radicalism in the Mexican-American civil rights movement, the rise of working-class feminism within Local 890 and the Grant County Mexican American community, and the development of Mexican-American identity in the Southwest. Chronicling Jencks''s five-year-long legal battle against charges of perjury, this biography also illustrates how civil liberties and American labor were constrained by the specter of anticommunism during the Cold War.
Drawing from extensive research as well as interviews and correspondence, this volume highlights Clinton Jencks''s dramatic influence on the history of labor culture in the Southwest through a lifetime devoted to progress and change for the social good.
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