How Long to Read Forging the Copper Collar

How Long Does it Take to Read Forging the Copper Collar?

It takes the average reader 7 hours and 35 minutes to read Forging the Copper Collar by James W. Byrkit

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Bisbee, Arizona...July 12, 1917...6:30 a.m.... 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. 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. In Forging the Copper Collar, Byrkit 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. Because the years have obscured this incident and its background, the writing of Copper Collar involved 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.

How long is Forging the Copper Collar?

Forging the Copper Collar by James W. Byrkit is 452 pages long, and a total of 113,904 words.

This makes it 153% the length of the average book. It also has 139% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Forging the Copper Collar Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 10 hours and 22 minutes to read Forging the Copper Collar aloud.

What Reading Level is Forging the Copper Collar?

Forging the Copper Collar is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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