Mexican American Labor, 1790-1990
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0826315267
ISBN 13
9780826315267
Category
Main Library
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Publication Year
1994
Publisher
Pages
462
Description
Historians of labour in the United States have given scant attention to Mexican American workers and their trade union activity. This panoramic history summarises the origins of this work force and the social and economic changes the workers experienced as industrialisation and capitalism transformed employment in the nineteenth century. He focuses on the Southwest and California in particular in recounting worker efforts to organise trade unions over the past one hundred years. As the author traces the historic evolution of struggles to gain economic equity and ethnic and gender equality, he introduces the individual experiences of many courageous workers. - from Amzon
Number of Copies
1
