hispanic employment statistics Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/hispanic-employment-statistics Tue, 28 Mar 2017 15:12:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 Latinos and Colorado’s Segmented Labor Force http://toursmaps.com/latinos-colorados-segmented-labor-force.html http://toursmaps.com/latinos-colorados-segmented-labor-force.html#respond Thu, 05 May 2016 11:56:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=203726 In addition to political challenges and accomplishments, the Gilded Age and Progressive Era in Colorado also brought industrialization. Latinos played crucial roles in the shaping of a modern industrialized Colorado. Many especially those who had owned land in southern Colorado and who had depended on small-scale agriculture to make a living soon found themselves without land. Crop failures, a poor cattle market, unscrupulous Anglo creditors, lawyers, and land speculators all contributed to this loss of land, forcing Latinos to seek work in other industries. Although some Latinos weathered the storms and remained on their own land raising sheep and cattle

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