Labor Rights Are Civil Rights Mexican American Workers in Twentieth-Century America

Name: Labor Rights Are Civil Rights Mexican American Workers in Twentieth-Century America
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ISBN: 9780691134024

ISBN-10: 0691134022

ISBN-13: 9780691134024

Edition: 2007

Authors: Zaragosa Vargas

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In 1937, Mexican workers were among the strikers and supporters beaten, arrested, and murdered by Chicago policemen in the now infamous Republic Steel Mill Strike. Using this event as a springboard, Zaragosa Vargas embarks on the first full-scale history of the Mexican-American labor movement in twentieth-century America. Absorbing and meticulously researched,Labor Rights Are Civil Rightspaints a multifaceted portrait of the complexities and contours of the Mexican American struggle for equality from the 1930s to the postwar era. Drawing on extensive archival research, Vargas focuses on the large Mexican American communities in Texas, Colorado, and California. As he explains, the Great…

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List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 10/28/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Abbreviations


Introduction



We Are the Salt of the Earth: Conditions among Mexican Workers in the Early Great Depression Years


The ""Big Swing"": The Peregrinations and Tribulations of Tejano Cotton Harvesters


""In the Land of Bondage"": Colorado's Mexican Sugar Beet Workers


Summer in the Country: California's Mexican Farm Workers


The Great Depression Hits the Mexicans of Texas and the Western States


Work, Leave, or Starve: Limiting Relief to Mexicans


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