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  Reduction in Force in a Single Company Town


Category:  Economic Development
Publication ( 589.53 KB )
Language: English
Author(s): Harry Ayer ; Edwin Carpenter ; Dana Deeds ; William E. Martin ; Russell Gum
Description: This research article focuses on Bisbee, Arizona. Cluster analysis is used with a large data set on recently unemployed and still employed miners in a single company town. It appears that a new trend toward favoring the large Mexican-American population of the area in the higher practices of the area's major employer. At the same time, younger employable Anglos are leaving the area.