Border Crossings - Mexican and Mexican-American Workers

The history of Mexican and Mexican-American working classes has been segregated by the political boundary that separates the United States of America from the United States of Mexico. As a result, scholars have long ignored the social, cultural, and polit

List of contents

Chapter 1 The Culture and Politics of Late Nineteenth-Century Mexican Textile Workers Chapter 2 The Formation of the Orizaban Working Class Chapter 3 Gender, Work, and Class Consciousness among Mexican Factory Workers, 1880-1910 Chapter 4 Syndicalism and Citizenship: Post-Revolutionary Worker Mobilizations in Veracruz Chapter 5 Identity and Culture: The Poza Rica Oil Workers and Nationalization Chapter 6 Labor Formation and Community Development: The Mexican Working Class in Texas, 1900-1950 Chapter 7 As Guilty as Hell: Copper Towns, Mexican Miners and Spatial Development in Arizona Chapter 8 Customs and Resistance: Work and Mexican Immigrants to Chicago, 1910-1930 Chapter 9 Transnational Mexican Workers in California and Their Organizations

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Edited by John Mason Hart

Summary

The history of Mexican and Mexican-American working classes has been segregated by the political boundary that separates the United States of America from the United States of Mexico.

Product details

• Authors: John M. Hart, John Mason Hart
• Assisted by: John Hart (Editor), John Mason Hart (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.08.1998
• EAN: 9780842027175
• ISBN: 978-0-8420-2717-5
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 225 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 363 g
• Series: Latin American Silhouettes; Latin American Silhouettes (Pa; Latin American Silhouettes; Latin American Silhouettes (Pa; Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; USA, Mexico, Ethnic Studies, Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Caribbean & Latin American, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, International Relations, Migration, immigration & emigration, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, Migration, immigration and emigration, Social classes, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Civil rights & citizenship, Civics and citizenship, Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General