Author: Carl Cleveland Taylor
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Category : Social surveys
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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The Social Survey
Author: Carl Cleveland Taylor
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Category : Social surveys
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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Publisher:
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Category : Social surveys
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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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.
National Resources Development Report
Author: United States. National Resources Planning Board
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1136
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1136
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National Resources Development Report for 1943 ...
Author: United States. National Resources Planning Board
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Category : Public works
Languages : en
Pages : 676
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Category : Public works
Languages : en
Pages : 676
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Women of the Depression
Author: Julia Kirk Blackwelder
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9780890968642
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Even before the Depression, unemployment, low wages, substandard housing, and poor health plagued many women in what was then one of America's poorest cities--San Antonio. Divided by tradition, prejudice, or law into three distinct communities of Mexican Americans, Anglos, and African Americans, San Antonio women faced hardships based on their personal economic circumstances as well as their identification with a particular racial or ethnic group. Women of the Depression, first published in 1984, presents a unique study of life in a city whose society more nearly reflected divisions by the concept of caste rather than class. Caste was conferred by identification with a particular ethnic or racial group, and it defined nearly every aspect of women's lives. Historian Julia Kirk Blackwelder shows that Depression-era San Antonio, with its majority Mexican American population, its heavy dependence on tourism and light industry, and its domination by an Anglo elite, suffered differently as a whole than other American cities. Loss of migrant agricultural work drove thousands of Mexican Americans into the barrios on the west side of San Antonio, and with the intense repatriation fervor of the 1930s, the fear of deportation inhibited many Mexican Americans from seeking public or private aid. The author combines excerpts from personal letters, diaries, and interviews with government statistics to present a collective view of discrimination and culture and the strength of both in the face of crisis.
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9780890968642
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Even before the Depression, unemployment, low wages, substandard housing, and poor health plagued many women in what was then one of America's poorest cities--San Antonio. Divided by tradition, prejudice, or law into three distinct communities of Mexican Americans, Anglos, and African Americans, San Antonio women faced hardships based on their personal economic circumstances as well as their identification with a particular racial or ethnic group. Women of the Depression, first published in 1984, presents a unique study of life in a city whose society more nearly reflected divisions by the concept of caste rather than class. Caste was conferred by identification with a particular ethnic or racial group, and it defined nearly every aspect of women's lives. Historian Julia Kirk Blackwelder shows that Depression-era San Antonio, with its majority Mexican American population, its heavy dependence on tourism and light industry, and its domination by an Anglo elite, suffered differently as a whole than other American cities. Loss of migrant agricultural work drove thousands of Mexican Americans into the barrios on the west side of San Antonio, and with the intense repatriation fervor of the 1930s, the fear of deportation inhibited many Mexican Americans from seeking public or private aid. The author combines excerpts from personal letters, diaries, and interviews with government statistics to present a collective view of discrimination and culture and the strength of both in the face of crisis.
Public Welfare
Author:
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Category : Public welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 218
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Category : Public welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 218
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Library Accessions
Author: United States. Federal Works Agency. Library
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Category : Government libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 824
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Category : Government libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 824
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Security, Work, and Relief Policies. 1942
Author: United States. National Resources Planning Board. Committee on Long-range Work and Relief Policies
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Category : Charities
Languages : en
Pages : 672
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Publisher:
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Category : Charities
Languages : en
Pages : 672
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Security, Work, and Relief Policies
Author: United States. National Resources Planning Board. Committee on Long-range Work and Relief Policies
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Category : Charities
Languages : en
Pages : 662
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Category : Charities
Languages : en
Pages : 662
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Bulletin
Author: University of Missouri
Publisher:
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Category : Social sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 150
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Publisher:
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Category : Social sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 150
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