Local Resources and projects

"Connecting Community and Academic Activism Workshop Series"

Local Resources and Projects

Local Labor: Mining Issues

Readings and resources relevant to this project (ideas for course content connections)

A very partial list and starting point for resources. Please contribute materials to this site! Until I have an interactive form up here, please email me links (danika@u.arizona.edu).

Books and Films

Salt of the Earth. Director, Herbert Biberman. 1953. (UA media: PN1997 .S14 1954b)
Kingsolver, Barbara. Holding the Line: Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983. Ithaca, NY : ILR Press, 1989.
Huston, Bob. Bisbee 17: A Novel. New York : Pantheon Books, 1979. Reprinted Tucson: UAP, 1999.
Rosenblum, Jonathan. Copper Crucible: How the Arizona Miners' Strike of 1983 Recast Labor-Management Relations in America.Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR Press, 1995.
Bailey, Lynn R. Bisbee: Queen of the Copper Camps. Westernlore Press, 1983.
Schwantes, Carlos A. Bisbee: Urban Outpost On The Frontier. U Arizona P, 1992.
University of Arizona Library Web Exhibits on Southwest History.
Los Mineros (60 min.), Galan Productions, 1991. (UA media: HD8081.M6 M56 1991)
Coal Mining Women (40 min.), Appalshop Film and Video, 1982. (soundtrack liner notes available online)

Related Activist Projects and Grassroots Groups

Mining Activism Guide
Coal Mining in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (labor history)

Bibliographies and primary resources

Salt of the Earth resources:

short Biberman (director) biography: http://www.organa.com/A_V_SCREENS/salt/filmlg.gif
Organa's information page on the film, including audio and video clips, and links to posters and stills
The Suppression of Salt of the Earth:How Hollywood, Big Labor, and Politicians Blacklisted a Movie in Cold War America", by James Lorence.
Esperanza. An opera by David Bishop based on Salt of the Earth
CUNY library's short historical sketch of the film
Audio file: Jules Schwerin, Assistant Director and production manager of the film Salt of the Earth, speaks about the production of the film. Recorded December 1, 1994 at the University at Albany. Introduction by Prof. Gerald Zahavi. Time: 47 minutes, 11 seconds. Available on Zahavi's course site: http://www.albany.edu/history/history316/his316f2000.html

Bisbee Deportation History

"Gaining a Foothold In the Paradise of Capitalism: The Western Federation of Miners and The Unionization of Bisbee" By James D. McBride. Journal of Arizona History 23 (Autumn 1982): 299-316.
University of Arizona's Web Exhibit on the Bisbee Deportation (an extensive history of the events)
Resources on the Bisbee Deportation from the UA library site.
"The Great Wobbly Drive" The Bisbee Daily Review, Friday Morning, July 13, 1917.

General Mining History and Southwest Mining Resources

Arizona Mining and Labor History from the Chicano Research Collection at Arizona State University
PhelpsDodge Corporation
The PhelpsDodge Watch page
Asarco, Inc.

Sample Syllabi

History 491: Special Topics (American Labor History) University of Southern Colorado Spring 2000 Professor Jonathan Rees
WORKERS AND WORK IN AMERICA, 1600 TO THE PRESENT: A MULTIMEDIA COURSE. Gerald Zahavi (a pretty thorough history and collection of resources for labor history, including interesting links to audio and video files. For example, "Talking Farmwork Blues" a 32 minute audio file about agricultural labor history.)
History 831:Urban Studies: 20th Century American Labor History. Spring 2000 Instructor: Michael Gordon

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