id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt sf268338z52 Micaela Anne Larkin Labor's Desert: Mexican Workers, Unions, and Entrepreneurial Conservatism in Arizona, 1917-1972 2008 .txt text/plain 282 8 25 This dissertation explores how struggles among labor unions, Mexican workers, and Sunbelt entrepreneurs shaped modern conservatism. Chronicling the business culture of Arizona in the twentieth century, I argue that an anti-labor ideology formed out of conflicts among entrepreneurs, labor unions, and Mexican workers before World War II, led to the politicization of many Arizona entrepreneurs, and the enshrinement in the local business culture and politics of an anti-labor ideology that contributed to the rise of modern conservatism. cache/sf268338z52.txt txt/sf268338z52.txt