On Strike and on Film
Subtitle: Mexican American Families and Blacklisted Filmmakers in Cold War America
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: March 12, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780807830833
Subjects: Film theory & criticism; History of specific subjects; Mining industry; Social history; Trade unions; c 1945 to c 1960; Performing Arts; Ethnic Issues; Cinema/Film: Book; New Mexico; Ethnic Studies - Hispanic American Studies; Labor & Industrial Relations - Unions; United States - 20th Century/50s; Film & Video - General; Empire Zinc Company Strike, Hanover, N.M., 1950-1951; Mexican American labor union members; Strikes and lockouts; Zinc mining; Mexican Americans; Mexican American labor; Chicano/a; International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers; mining; Grant County, New Mexico; Salt of the Earth; Empire Zinc Company; household economies; labor strike; class relations; U.S. labor; Hollywood blacklist; anticommunism; Communist Party; Cold War; Clorinda Alderette; Juan Chacon; Virginia Chacon; Charles Coleman; Arturo Flores; Clinton Jencks; Virginia Jencks; Joe T. Morales; Angela Sanchez; Henrietta Williams; Herbert Biberman; Sonja Dahl Biberman; Michael Wilson; Paul Jarrico; Sylvia Jarrico; unpaid work; left-wing unions; class consciousness; gender relations; feminism