Author: José Guillermo Pastrano
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780542795480
Category : Mexican American agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
This examination of state policies and practices encourages Chicano scholars to further explore how the government, in response to direct and indirect political pressure from commercial agriculture, devised agricultural and labor policies that shaped the experiences of Mexican workers. Likewise, this focus on industrial farming invites U.S. labor historians to examine the role of transnational farm workers in the peripheral South.
Industrial Agriculture in the Peripheral South: State, Race, and the Politics of Migrant Labor in Texas, 1890--1930
Author: José Guillermo Pastrano
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780542795480
Category : Mexican American agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
This examination of state policies and practices encourages Chicano scholars to further explore how the government, in response to direct and indirect political pressure from commercial agriculture, devised agricultural and labor policies that shaped the experiences of Mexican workers. Likewise, this focus on industrial farming invites U.S. labor historians to examine the role of transnational farm workers in the peripheral South.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780542795480
Category : Mexican American agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
This examination of state policies and practices encourages Chicano scholars to further explore how the government, in response to direct and indirect political pressure from commercial agriculture, devised agricultural and labor policies that shaped the experiences of Mexican workers. Likewise, this focus on industrial farming invites U.S. labor historians to examine the role of transnational farm workers in the peripheral South.
Industrial Agriculture in the Peripheral South
Author: José Guillermo Pastrano
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mexican American agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mexican American agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
The Industrial Resources, Etc., of the Southern and Western States
Author: James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industries
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industries
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
The Industrial Resources, Etc., of the Southern and Western States: Embracing a View of Their Commerce, Agriculture, Manufactures ... Together with Historical and Statistical Sketches of the Different States and Cities of the Union, Etc
Author: James Dunwood Brownson DE BOW
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
The Industrial Resources, Etc. of the Southern and Western States
Author: James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industries
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industries
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
Industrialization in the South and Its Relation to Agriculture
Author: H. P. Todd
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
The Industrial Resources Etc. of the Southern and Western States
Author: James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industries
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industries
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
The Tejano Diaspora
Author: Marc Simon Rodriguez
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 0807877662
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Each spring during the 1960s and 1970s, a quarter million farm workers left Texas to travel across the nation, from the Midwest to California, to harvest America's agricultural products. During this migration of people, labor, and ideas, Tejanos established settlements in nearly all the places they traveled to for work, influencing concepts of Mexican Americanism in Texas, California, Wisconsin, Michigan, and elsewhere. In The Tejano Diaspora, Marc Simon Rodriguez examines how Chicano political and social movements developed at both ends of the migratory labor network that flowed between Crystal City, Texas, and Wisconsin during this period. Rodriguez argues that translocal Mexican American activism gained ground as young people, activists, and politicians united across the migrant stream. Crystal City, well known as a flash point of 1960s-era Mexican Americanism, was a classic migrant sending community, with over 80 percent of the population migrating each year in pursuit of farm work. Wisconsin, which had a long tradition of progressive labor politics, provided a testing ground for activism and ideas for young movement leaders. By providing a view of the Chicano movement beyond the Southwest, Rodriguez reveals an emergent ethnic identity, discovers an overlooked youth movement, and interrogates the meanings of American citizenship.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 0807877662
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Each spring during the 1960s and 1970s, a quarter million farm workers left Texas to travel across the nation, from the Midwest to California, to harvest America's agricultural products. During this migration of people, labor, and ideas, Tejanos established settlements in nearly all the places they traveled to for work, influencing concepts of Mexican Americanism in Texas, California, Wisconsin, Michigan, and elsewhere. In The Tejano Diaspora, Marc Simon Rodriguez examines how Chicano political and social movements developed at both ends of the migratory labor network that flowed between Crystal City, Texas, and Wisconsin during this period. Rodriguez argues that translocal Mexican American activism gained ground as young people, activists, and politicians united across the migrant stream. Crystal City, well known as a flash point of 1960s-era Mexican Americanism, was a classic migrant sending community, with over 80 percent of the population migrating each year in pursuit of farm work. Wisconsin, which had a long tradition of progressive labor politics, provided a testing ground for activism and ideas for young movement leaders. By providing a view of the Chicano movement beyond the Southwest, Rodriguez reveals an emergent ethnic identity, discovers an overlooked youth movement, and interrogates the meanings of American citizenship.
Mexicanos
Author: Manuel G. Gonzales
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253353688
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
Newly revised and updated, Mexicanos tells the rich and vibrant story of Mexicans in the United States. Emerging from the ruins of Aztec civilization and from centuries of Spanish contact with indigenous people, Mexican culture followed the Spanish colonial frontier northward and put its distinctive mark on what became the southwestern United States. Shaped by their Indian and Spanish ancestors, deeply influenced by Catholicism, and tempered by an often difficult existence, Mexicans continue to play an important role in U.S. society, even as the dominant Anglo culture strives to assimilate them. Thorough and balanced, Mexicanos makes a valuable contribution to the understanding of the Mexican population of the United States—a growing minority who are a vital presence in 21st-century America.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253353688
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
Newly revised and updated, Mexicanos tells the rich and vibrant story of Mexicans in the United States. Emerging from the ruins of Aztec civilization and from centuries of Spanish contact with indigenous people, Mexican culture followed the Spanish colonial frontier northward and put its distinctive mark on what became the southwestern United States. Shaped by their Indian and Spanish ancestors, deeply influenced by Catholicism, and tempered by an often difficult existence, Mexicans continue to play an important role in U.S. society, even as the dominant Anglo culture strives to assimilate them. Thorough and balanced, Mexicanos makes a valuable contribution to the understanding of the Mexican population of the United States—a growing minority who are a vital presence in 21st-century America.
From South Texas to the Nation
Author: John Weber
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469625245
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
In the early years of the twentieth century, newcomer farmers and migrant Mexicans forged a new world in South Texas. In just a decade, this vast region, previously considered too isolated and desolate for large-scale agriculture, became one of the United States' most lucrative farming regions and one of its worst places to work. By encouraging mass migration from Mexico, paying low wages, selectively enforcing immigration restrictions, toppling older political arrangements, and periodically immobilizing the workforce, growers created a system of labor controls unique in its levels of exploitation. Ethnic Mexican residents of South Texas fought back by organizing and by leaving, migrating to destinations around the United States where employers eagerly hired them--and continued to exploit them. In From South Texas to the Nation, John Weber reinterprets the United States' record on human and labor rights. This important book illuminates the way in which South Texas pioneered the low-wage, insecure, migration-dependent labor system on which so many industries continue to depend.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469625245
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
In the early years of the twentieth century, newcomer farmers and migrant Mexicans forged a new world in South Texas. In just a decade, this vast region, previously considered too isolated and desolate for large-scale agriculture, became one of the United States' most lucrative farming regions and one of its worst places to work. By encouraging mass migration from Mexico, paying low wages, selectively enforcing immigration restrictions, toppling older political arrangements, and periodically immobilizing the workforce, growers created a system of labor controls unique in its levels of exploitation. Ethnic Mexican residents of South Texas fought back by organizing and by leaving, migrating to destinations around the United States where employers eagerly hired them--and continued to exploit them. In From South Texas to the Nation, John Weber reinterprets the United States' record on human and labor rights. This important book illuminates the way in which South Texas pioneered the low-wage, insecure, migration-dependent labor system on which so many industries continue to depend.