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's book is the first regional history of these ordinary working people miners, muckers, millhands, and smelter workers who labored in the thousands of...
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 P...
