Labor Rights Are Civil Rights : : Mexican American Workers in Twentieth-Century America / / Zaragosa Vargas.
In 1937, Mexican workers were among the strikers and supporters beaten, arrested, and murdered by Chicago policemen in the now infamous Republic Steel Mill Strike. Using this event as a springboard, Zaragosa Vargas embarks on the first full-scale history of the Mexican-American labor movement in twe...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2013] ©2004 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Politics and Society in Modern America ;
92 |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (400 p.) :; 20 halftones. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- CHAPTER ONE. We Are the Salt of the Earth: Conditions among Mexican Workers in the Early Great Depression Years
- CHAPTER TWO. Gaining Strength through the Union: Mexican Labor Upheavals in the Era of the NRA
- CHAPTER THREE. "Do You See the Light?": Mexican American Workers and CIO Organizing
- CHAPTER FOUR. Advocates of Racial Democracy: Mexican American Workers Fight for Labor and Civil Rights in the Early World War II Years
- CHAPTER FIVE. The Lie of "America's Greatest Generation": Mexican Americans Fight against Prejudice, Intolerance, and Hatred during World War II
- CHAPTER SIX. Labor Rights Are Civil Rights: The Emergence of the Mexican American Civil Rights Struggle
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Index
- Backmatter