Mexican labor & World War II : braceros in the Pacific Northwest, 1942-1947 /

"A study of the bracero program during World War II. It describes the labor history of Mexican and Chicano workers in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. It analyses the ways in which Braceros were active agents of their own lives. It also describes the living and working conditions in migrant farm...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gamboa, Erasmo (Autor)
Otros Autores: Leonard, Kevin Allen, 1964- (writer of foreword.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2000]
Colección:Columbia Northwest classics.
Temas:
1900-1999
Migrant agricultural laborers > Northwest, Pacific > History > 20th century.
Foreign workers, Mexican > Northwest, Pacific > History > 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 > Manpower > Northwest, Pacific.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
Foreign workers, Mexican.
Manpower.
Migrant agricultural laborers.
Pacific Northwest.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Agribusiness and Mexican migration
  • World War II and the farm labor crisis
  • The Bracero worker
  • Huelgas : Bracero strikes
  • Bracero social life
  • From Braceros to Chicano farm migrant workers.

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