{"product_id":"forging-the-copper-collar-arizonas-labor-management-war-of-1901-1921-paperback-softback-9780816535187","title":"Forging the Copper Collar; Arizona's Labor-Management War of 1901–1921 (Paperback \/ softback) 9780816535187","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eForging the Copper Collar\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eArizona's Labor-Management War of 1901–1921\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJames W. Byrkit (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780816535187\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 30 October 2016\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e452 pages, 16 half-tone illustrations\u003cbr\u003e22.6 x 14.9 x 2.7 cm, 0.525 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBisbee, Arizona...July 12, 1917...6:30 a.m....\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Just after dawn, two thousand armed vigilantes took to the streets of this remote Arizona mining town to round up members and sympathizers of the radical Industrial Workers of the World. Before the morning was over, nearly twelve hundred alleged Wobblies had been herded onto waiting boxcars. By day's end, they had been hauled off to New Mexico.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e While the Bisbee Deportation was the most notorious of many vigilante actions of its day, it was more than the climax of a labor-management war—it was the point at which Arizona donned the copper collar. That such an event could occur, James Byrkit contends, was not attributable so much to the marshaling of public sentiment against the I.W.W. as to the outright manipulation of the state's political and social climate by Eastern business interests.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eForging the Copper Collar, \u003c\/i\u003eByrkit paints a vivid picture of Arizona in the early part of this century. He demonstrates how isolated mining communities were no more than mercantilistic colonies controlled by Eastern power, and how that power wielded control over all the Arizona's affairs—holding back unionism, creating a self-serving tax structure, and summarily expelling dissidents.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Because the years have obscured this incident and its background, the writing of \u003ci\u003eCopper Collar \u003c\/i\u003einvolved extensive research and verification of facts. The result is a book that captures not only the turbulence of an era, but also the political heritage of a state.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"The University of Arizona Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52570046497048,"sku":"9780816535187","price":29.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/forging-the-copper-collar-arizonas-labor-management-war-of-1901-1921-paperback-softback-9780816535187","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}