Abandoning Their Beloved Land offers an essential new history of the Bracero Program a bilateral initiative that allowed Mexican men to work in the United States as seasonal contract farmworkers from 1942 to 1964. Using national and local archives in Mexico historian... Lees meer.
As the first and largest guestworker program the U.S. Mexico Bracero Program 1942 1964 codified the unequal relations of labor migration between the two nations. This book interrogates the articulations of race and class in the making of the Bracero Program by introd... Lees meer.
Long before Cesar Ch vez and Chicano became commonly known the word bracero had established itself in the language of American politics. The Mexican Farm Labor Program-or bracero program as it came to be known-was from its inception in 1942 a highly controversia... Lees meer.
At the outset of World War II California agriculture seemed to be on the cusp of change. Many Californians reacting to the ravages of the Great Depression called for a radical reorientation of the highly exploitative labor relations that had allowed the state to beco... Lees meer.
La Radio de Cuba llega a su centenario. Sea el recuerdo para los pr stinos amantes del novedoso medio que en su andar dejan una profunda huella por sus aportes al surgimiento y posterior desarrollo. Esta obra trata de forma representativa de rendirles un modesto ho... Lees meer.
Mitchell shows that growers workers and officials confronted a series of problems that shaped and were shaped by the landscape itself. They Saved the Crops is a theoretically rich and stylistically innovative account of grower rapaciousness worker militancy rampant... Lees meer.
El libro presenta un an lisis de la pol tica bilateral que regul la migraci n mexicana laboral especialmente en la poca de la renegociaci n del Programa Bracero entre 1947 y 1952. El estudio de las discusiones diplom ticas que propiciaron el mantenimiento del progra... Lees meer.
The authors offer a comprehensive and contemporary look at the increasingly important role that Mexican immigrants play in the North American economy. Mexican migration to the United States and Canada is a highly contentious issue in the eyes of many North Americans... Lees meer.
Desperate for laborers to keep the trains moving during World War II the U.S. and Mexican governments created a now mostly forgotten bracero railroad program that sent a hundred thousand Mexican workers across the border to build and maintain railroad lines throughout... Lees meer.
This is the definitive history of the pioneers who left Mexico and went to the United States as guest workers in the mid-twentieth century. The Bracero Program that brought them was vitally important to the development of labor in America and the modern state in Mexico... Lees meer.
Rising consumer demand for fresh fruits and vegetables has led to the employment of five million Mexican-born workers on North American farms during a typical year. The migration of Mexican workers within and from Mexico has implications for North American agriculture... Lees meer.
Rising consumer demand for fresh fruits and vegetables has led to the employment of five million Mexican-born workers on North American farms during a typical year. The migration of Mexican workers within and from Mexico has implications for North American agriculture... Lees meer.
