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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 twentieth-century America. Absorbing and meticulously researched, Labor Rights Are Civil Rights paints a multifaceted portrait of the complexities and contours of the Mexican American struggle for equality from the 1930's to the postwar era. Drawing on extensive archival research, Vargas focuses on the large Mexican American communities in Texas, Colorado, and California. As he explains, the Great Depression heightened the struggles of Spanish speaking blue-collar workers, and employers began to define citizenship to exclude Mexicans from political rights and erect barriers to resistance. Mexican Americans faced hostility and repatriation. The mounting strife resulted in strikes by Mexican fruit and vegetable farmers. This collective action, combined with involvement in the Communist party, led Mexican workers to unionize. Vargas carefully illustrates how union mobilization in agriculture, tobacco, garment, and other industries became an important vehicle for achieving Mexican American labor and civil rights. He details how interracial unionism proved successful in cross-border alliances, in fighting discriminatory hiring practices, in building local unions, in mobilizing against fascism and in fighting brutal racism. No longer willing to accept their inferior status, a rising Mexican American grassroots movement would utilize direct action to achieve equality.

Américains d'origine mexicaine --- Américains d'origine mexicaine --- Chicanos --- Hispanos --- Mexican Americans --- Labor movement --- Ethnology --- Civil rights --- History --- Employment --- Mouvement ouvrier --- Travail --- Histoire --- Droits

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Spanish-American literature --- United States --- American literature --- Mexican American literature (Spanish) --- Littérature américaine --- Mexican American authors --- History and criticism --- Auteurs américains d'origine mexicaine --- Histoire et critique --- 860 <8> --- Spaanse literatuur: Zuid-Amerika --- 860 <8> Spaanse literatuur: Zuid-Amerika --- Littérature américaine --- Auteurs américains d'origine mexicaine --- United States of America

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Chicano movement --- Mexican Americans --- Américains d'origine mexicaine --- History --- Politics and government. --- Social conditions. --- Histoire --- Politique et gouvernement --- Conditions sociales --- Politics and government --- Social conditions --- Américains d'origine mexicaine --- Chicano movement - History --- Mexican Americans - Politics and government --- Mexican Americans - Social conditions

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Mexican Americans --- Immigrants --- Foreign workers, Mexican --- Research --- Social conditions --- Mexico --- United States --- Emigration and immigration --- Américains d'origine mexicaine --- Travailleurs étrangers mexicains --- Américains d'origine mexicaine --- Travailleurs étrangers mexicains --- Conditions sociales --- Mexique --- Etats-Unis --- Emigration et immigration --- Congresses --- Buitenlandse arbeiders [Mexicaanse ] --- Mexican Americans - Research - Congresses --- Immigrants - United States - Research - Congresses --- Mexican Americans - Social conditions - Congresses --- Immigrants - United States - Social conditions - Congresses --- Foreign workers, Mexican - United States - Research - Congresses --- Mexico - Emigration and immigration - Research - Congresses --- United States - Emigration and immigration - Research - Congresses

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Law --- Mexican Americans --- Droit --- Américains d'origine mexicaine --- Law. --- Mexican Americans. --- California. --- Chicanos --- Hispanos --- Acts, Legislative --- Enactments, Legislative --- Laws (Statutes) --- Legislative acts --- Legislative enactments --- Alta California --- CA --- Cal. --- Cali. --- CF --- Chia-chou --- Departamento de Californias --- Kʻaellipʻonia --- Kʻaellipʻonia-ju --- Kʻaellipʻoniaju --- Kalifornii --- Kalifornii︠a︡ --- Kalifornija --- Ḳalifornyah --- Ḳalifornye --- Kālīfūrniyā --- Kaliphornia --- Karapōnia --- Kariforunia --- Kariforunia-shū --- Medinat Ḳalifornyah --- Politeia tēs Kaliphornias --- Provincia de Californias --- Shtat Kalifornii︠a︡ --- State of California --- Upper California --- Ethnology --- Jurisprudence --- Legislation --- Regions --- Alta California (Province) --- Kalifornii͡ --- Kālīfūrniy --- Kariforunia-sh --- Shtat Kalifornii͡ --- Law, General & Comparative --- Californias (Province) --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- California