The World of the Mexican Worker in Texas

by Zamora, Emilio

• ISBN13: 9780890966785
• ISBN10: 0890966788
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-08-01
• Publisher: Texas A & M Univ Pr

Summary

For Mexican workers in Texas, industrialization meant worsening economic conditions and widespread discrimination. In this ground-breaking work, the author challenges the stereotypical view of Mexican workers as passive and describes their efforts to organize their own labor. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Introduction	p. 3
Discrimination and Inequality in the Towns and Countryside	p. 10
Race and Work on the Farms and in the Cities	p. 30
Mobilizing the Mexican Response	p. 55
Voluntary Organizations and the Ethic of Mutuality: Expressions of a Mexicanist Political Culture	p. 86
Unionism on the Border: Federal Labor Union No. 11953, 1905-1907	p. 110
Socialists and Magonistas in the Cotton Belt, 1912-16	p. 133
The AFL Opens a Door	p. 162
The Mexican Worker in a Changing World	p. 197
Appendix	p. 211
Notes	p. 218
Bibliography	p. 257
Index	p. 271
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