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Labor Rights Are Civil Rights : Mexican American Workers in Twentieth-Century America /

The author provides a history of the Mexican American labour movement in 20th-century America. The text looks at the complexities and contours of the Mexican American struggle for equality from the 1930s to the postwar era.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Vargas, Zaragosa (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Princeton University Press, [2008, 2005]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE: We Are the Salt of the Earth: Conditions among Mexican Workers in the Early Great Depression Years; The "Big Swing": The Peregrinations and Tribulations of Tejano Cotton Harvesters; "In the Land of Bondage": Colorado's Mexican Sugar Beet Workers; Summer in the Country: California's Mexican Farm Workers; The Great Depression Hits the Mexicans of Texas and the Western States; Work, Leave, or Starve: Limiting Relief to Mexicans. 
505 0 |a "Send Them Back to Where They Came From": The Repatriation Campaign UnfoldsCauses and Consequences of Mexican Repatriation and Deportation; CHAPTER TWO: Gaining Strength through the Union: Mexican Labor Upheavals in the Era of the NRA; Revolt in the Cotton Fields: Tejano Pickers Strike the El Paso Cotton District; Radical Labor Unrest in the Colorado Beet Fields; In Unity There Is Strength: Strikes by Tejana Domestic, Cigar, and Garment Workers; Learning the Lessons of Rank-and-File Trade Unionism: The Los Angeles Garment Workers' Strike; For the Union: Los Angeles Furniture Workers Organize. 
505 0 |a "Are You A Bolshey?": The 1933 Gallup, New Mexico, Coal StrikeThe Red Menace: The National Miners Union Enters Gallup; Guns, Bayonets, and Clubs: Martial Law Descends on Gallup; Revolutionary Unionism at Work; Class against Class: The Gallup Coal Strike Escalates; A Pyrrhic Victory: The Gallup Coal Strike Ends; The Big Payback: The Crusade against Foreigners and Subversives ; CHAPTER THREE: "Do You See the Light?": Mexican American Workers and CIO Organizing; The Labor Offensive in South Texas and Cross-Border Organizing; A Power to Be Reckoned With: Emma Tenayuca, La Pasionaria. 
505 0 |a "She's Nothing but a Damned Communist": Emma Tenayuca's Work in the Unemployed Councils and the Workers' Alliance of America"The CIO Doesn't Exist Here": The 1938 Pecan Shellers' Strike; Educating the Party: Emma Tenayuca Pens "The Mexican Question in the Southwest"; "Pushing Back the Red Tide": The Downfall of Emma Tenayuca; Left Behind: UCAPAWA and Colorado's Mexican Sugar Beet Workers; Shifting Gears: UCAPAWA Organizes Cannery and Food Processing Workers in California; Collective Action: Mexican American CIO Unionists Organize Los Angeles. 
505 0 |a CHAPTER FOUR: Advocates of Racial Democracy: Mexican American Workers Fight for Labor and Civil Rights in the Early World War II YearsInclusive Unionism: The Case of Mine-Mill and Mexican American Miners and Smelter Workers; "A Society without Classes": Mine-Mill and CTM Undertake an Organizing Drive in El Paso; Texas Showdown: The CIO on Trial in El Paso; The Push by Mexican American CIO Unionists for Labor and Civil Rights Continues; Getting a Foot in the Door: Mexican American CIO Unionists Enter Los Angeles War Defense Industries. 
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