Border crossings : Mexican and Mexican-American workers /

Includes information on Anglos, Catholic Church, Porfirio Diaz, migrants, mutual aid societies, Phelps Dodge Corporation, Rio Blanco, San Angel, San Antonio, strikes, Veracruz, women workers, etc.

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Contributors: Hart, John M. 1935-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Wilmington, Del. : SR Books, 1998.
Series:Latin American silhouettes
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Table of Contents:
  • The evolution of the Mexican and Mexican-American working classes / John Mason Hart
  • Culture and politics: Mexican textile workers in the second half of the nineteenth century / Mario Camarena Ocampo and Susana A. Fernández Apango
  • The formation of the working class in Orizaba / Bernardo García Díaz
  • Gender, labor, and class consciousness in the Mexican textile industry, 1880-1910 / Carmen Ramos Escandón
  • Syndicalism and citizenship: postrevolutionary worker mobilizations in Veracruz / Elizabeth Jean Norvell
  • Identity, culture, and workers' autonomy: the petroleum workers of Poza Rica in the 1930s / Alberto Olvera Rivera
  • Labor formation, community, and politics: the Mexican working class in Texas, 1900-1945 / Emilio Zamora
  • As guilty as hell: Mexican copper miners and their communities in Arizona, 1920-1950 / Antonio Ríos Bustamante
  • Customs and resistance: Mexican immigrants in Chicago, 1910-1930 / Gerardo Necoechea Gracia
  • Historical perspectives on transnational Mexican workers in California / Devra Weber.