Contents
About the Contributing Authors
Abbreviations
The Impact of Labor on the Development of the West
I. The Western Federation of Miners
The WFM and Mine-Mill in Historical Perspective
The WFM Experience in Alaska and Arizona, 1902-1908 - James C. Foster
An Inquiry into the Fall of the WFM and Summary of the WFM Codebook - James C. Foster
The Rise of the Mine-Mill Union In Southwestern Copper - D. H. Dinwoodie
II. The Industrial Workers of the World
The Western Wobblies
The IWW and the Mid-Continent Oil Field - Earl Bruce White
The Bisbee Deportation - James Byrkit
III. The Rise of Unionized Farm Workers
The United Farm Workers of America
Little Known Farm Labor History - H. L. Mitchell
Racial Divisions and Agricultural Labor Organizing in Hawaii - Edward D. Beechert
Farm Labor: New Forks in Old Trails - Art Carstens
IV. Mexican Labor, North and South of the Border
Mexican Labor and the American Southwest
The Struggle for Independent Unions in Mexico, 1854-1931 - John M. Hart
The Historiography of a Myth - Rodney Anderson
Mexican Migrant Workers in the United States - David Maciel
V. Labor and Politics
Politics and the Western Labor Movement
Labor Politics, Hayden Style - Paul Mandel
Anti-Labor Politics in Texas, 1941-1957 - George N. Green
The Tragic Purge of 1948—A Personal Recollection - Monsignor Charles O. Rice
Index