Border Crossings Mexican and Mexican-American Workers

by Hart, John Mason

• ISBN13: 9780842027175
• ISBN10: 0842027173
• Format: Paperback
• 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

Introduction
The Evolution of the Mexican and Mexican-American Working Classes	p. 1
Culture and Politics: Mexican Textile Workers in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century	p. 27
The Formation of the Working Class in Orizaba	p. 49
Gender, Labor, and Class Consciousness in the Mexican Textile Industry, 1880-1910	p. 71
Syndicalism and Citizenship: Postrevolutionary Worker Mobilizations in Veracruz	p. 93
Identity, Culture, and Workers' Autonomy: The Petroleum Workers of Poza Rica in the 1930s	p. 117
Labor Formation, Community, and Politics: The Mexican Working Class in Texas, 1900-1945	p. 139
As Guilty as Hell: Mexican Copper Miners and Their Communities in Arizona, 1920-1950	p. 163
Customs and Resistance: Mexican Immigrants in Chicago, 1910-1930	p. 185
Historical Perspectives on Transnational Mexican Workers in California	p. 209
Index	p. 235
About the Contributors	p. 245
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