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Palomino - Clinton Jencks and Mexican-American Unionism in the American Southwest (Hardcover)
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Palomino - Clinton Jencks and Mexican-American Unionism in the American Southwest (Hardcover)
Series: Working Class in American History
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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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