Palomino : Clinton Jencks and Mexican-American Unionism in the American Southwest / James J. Lorence.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Working class in American historyPublisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2013]Description: xxii, 266 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780252037559
  • 0252037553
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 331.892/823452092 B 23
LOC classification:
  • HD8073.J46 L67 2013
Contents:
Clinton Jencks, Mine-Mill, and biography as history -- Growing up concerned : childhood, family, and the formation of a value system, 1918-1939 -- The world of work and new opportunities for social action : living faith, 1939-1945 -- Coming home : veterans' advocacy and renewed political commitment -- Mine-Mill and social change : economic progress, Mexican American activism, and social justice, 1945-1947 -- Mobilizing for mass action : social and political initiatives, 1948-1950 -- The moment of decision : the Empire Zinc strike, grass roots feminism, and Mexican American liberation, 1950-1953 -- Telling the story : Salt of the earth as a medium of communication -- Confronting domestic anti-communism : the Jencks case, civil liberties, and the law, 1953-1957 -- The web of consequences : life after Mine-Mill -- A reflection on the committed life.
Summary: This biography details the life of Clinton Jencks and his role in creating unions for workers in New Mexico and their fight against the Empire Zinc Company in 1951.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-254) and index.

Clinton Jencks, Mine-Mill, and biography as history -- Growing up concerned : childhood, family, and the formation of a value system, 1918-1939 -- The world of work and new opportunities for social action : living faith, 1939-1945 -- Coming home : veterans' advocacy and renewed political commitment -- Mine-Mill and social change : economic progress, Mexican American activism, and social justice, 1945-1947 -- Mobilizing for mass action : social and political initiatives, 1948-1950 -- The moment of decision : the Empire Zinc strike, grass roots feminism, and Mexican American liberation, 1950-1953 -- Telling the story : Salt of the earth as a medium of communication -- Confronting domestic anti-communism : the Jencks case, civil liberties, and the law, 1953-1957 -- The web of consequences : life after Mine-Mill -- A reflection on the committed life.

This biography details the life of Clinton Jencks and his role in creating unions for workers in New Mexico and their fight against the Empire Zinc Company in 1951.

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