Border Crossings Mexican and Mexican-American Workers

by Hart, John Mason

• ISBN13: 9780842027168
• ISBN10: 0842027165
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-08-01
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

The history of Mexican and Mexican-American working classes has been segregated by the political boundary that separates the United States of America from the United States of Mexico. As a result, scholars have long ignored the social, cultural, and polit

Table of Contents

John Mason Hart
Introduction	ix
John Mason Hart
CHAPTER ONE The Evolution of the Mexican and Mexican-American Working Classes	1	(26)
Mario Camarena Ocampo
Susana A. Fernandez Apango
CHAPTER TWO Culture and Politics: Mexican Textile Workers in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century	27	(22)
Bernardo Garcia Diaz
CHAPTER THREE The Formation of the Working Class in Orizaba	49	(22)
Carmen Ramos Escandon
CHAPTER FOUR Gender, Labor, and Class Consciousness in the Mexican Textile Industry, 1880-1910	71	(22)
Elizabeth Jean Norvell
CHAPTER FIVE Syndicalism and Citizenship: Postrevolutionary Worker Mobilizations in Veracruz	93	(24)
Alberto Olvera Rivera
CHAPTER SIX Identity, Culture, and Workers' Autonomy: The Petroleum Workers of Poza Rica in the 1930s	117	(22)
Emilio Zamora
CHAPTER SEVEN Labour Formation, Community, and Politics: The Mexican Working Class in Texas, 1900-1945	139	(24)
Antonio Rios Bustamante
CHAPTER EIGHT As Guilty as Hell: Mexican Copper Miners and Their Communities in Arizona, 1920-1950	163	(22)
Gerardo Necoechea Gracia
CHAPTER NINE Customs and Resistance: Mexican Immigrants in Chicago, 1910-1930	185	(24)
Devra Weber
CHAPTER TEN Historical Perspectives on Transnational Mexican Workers in California	209	(26)
Index	235	(10)
About the Contributors	245