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.

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 bec... 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.

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The Mexican Farm Labor Program or bracero program as it came to be known was from its inception in 1942 a highly controversial issue and became the focal point of an intense interest-group struggle this struggle and its group combatants provide the centr Long befo... Lees meer.

This tender tale shows that love can tie the loose ends together. For as long as Lesley could remember she and her sister Evette spent their summers at Gram s house. One day the girls and their mother move away from their home in Los Angeles and in with Gram in Ch... 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.

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.

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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.

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.

Structured to meet employers needs for low-wage farm workers the well-known Bracero Program recruited thousands of Mexicans to perform physical labor in the United States between 1942 and 1964 in exchange for remittances sent back to Mexico. This book uncovers a previ... 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.

Structured to meet employers needs for low-wage farm workers the well-known Bracero Program recruited thousands of Mexicans to perform physical labor in the United States between 1942 and 1964 in exchange for remittances sent back to Mexico. This book uncovers a previ... Lees meer.