PThis book explores the complex and enduring legacy of the Bracero Program 19421964 a U.S.-Mexico labor agreement that brought millions of Mexican workers to the United States to fill labor shortages during and after World War II. While the program was heralded as a s... Lees meer.
This document is part of the United States Department of Agricultures USDA Rural Development Publications collection. This collection includes publications that relate to rural development in America including from such series as Rural Development Research Reports Rural... Lees meer.
As the first and largest guestworker program the U.S.Mexico Bracero Program 19421964 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 introducing... Lees meer.
PDesperate 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 throughou... Lees meer.
