Historic Resources Survey, Miami, Arizona
Author : Mark E. Pry
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Page : pages
File Size : 26,89 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Architecture
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Author : Mark E. Pry
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Page : pages
File Size : 26,89 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Architecture
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Page : pages
File Size : 13,14 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Dwellings
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Author : Santos C. Vega
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 32,63 MB
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9780738585123
During the late 1800s, prospectors in search of gold, silver, and copper began to settle around the Pinal Mountains area in Miami. By 1918, several mining companies had established roots and contributed to the town's booming growth. The community established housing, schools, a hospital, and a town government, and the population grew to 5,000. Soon, Miami achieved recognition as one of the main mining towns in the state, along with neighboring Globe, Jerome, Morenci, Superior, Ajo, and Ray-Sonora. The new mining opportunities brought immigrants from around the world to settle in the area and eventually turned Arizona into a leading contributor to the copper industry. Although mining's hold on the local economy has changed over the years, today at least 20 percent of Miami-area employment is centered around copper mining, which remains close to the heart of the first hardy miners' descendants.
Author : Frank B. Fryman
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Page : 43 pages
File Size : 46,61 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Conservation of natural resources
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Author : Luis F. B. Plascencia
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 43,32 MB
Release : 2018-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0816539049
On any given day in Arizona, thousands of Mexican-descent workers labor to make living in urban and rural areas possible. The majority of such workers are largely invisible. Their work as caretakers of children and the elderly, dishwashers or cooks in restaurants, and hotel housekeeping staff, among other roles, remains in the shadows of an economy dependent on their labor. Mexican Workers and the Making of Arizona centers on the production of an elastic supply of labor, revealing how this long-standing approach to the building of Arizona has obscured important power relations, including the state’s favorable treatment of corporations vis-à-vis workers. Building on recent scholarship about Chicanas/os and others, the volume insightfully describes how U.S. industries such as railroads, mining, and agriculture have fostered the recruitment of Mexican labor, thus ensuring the presence of a surplus labor pool that expands and contracts to accommodate production and profit goals. The volume’s contributors delve into examples of migration and settlement in the Salt River Valley; the mobilization and immobilization of cotton workers in the 1920s; miners and their challenge to a dual-wage system in Miami, Arizona; Mexican American women workers in midcentury Phoenix; the 1980s Morenci copper miners’ strike and Chicana mobilization; Arizona’s industrial and agribusiness demands for Mexican contract labor; and the labor rights violations of construction workers today. Mexican Workers and the Making of Arizona fills an important gap in our understanding of Mexicans and Mexican Americans in the Southwest by turning the scholarly gaze to Arizona, which has had a long-standing impact on national policy and politics.
Author : Mark E. Pry
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Page : pages
File Size : 14,15 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Architecture
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Page : 249 pages
File Size : 41,43 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Historic buildings
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Author : Pat H. Stein
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Page : 154 pages
File Size : 45,54 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Camp Verde (Ariz.)
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Author : Don W. Ryden
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Page : 55 pages
File Size : 43,37 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Historic sites
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Page : 100 pages
File Size : 16,52 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Archaeological surveying
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