Narrow your search

Library

KU Leuven (2)

UGent (2)

ULB (2)

LUCA School of Arts (1)

Odisee (1)

Thomas More Kempen (1)

Thomas More Mechelen (1)

UCLL (1)

Vlerick Business School (1)

VIVES (1)

More...

Resource type

book (2)


Language

English (2)


Year
From To Submit

2005 (2)

Listing 1 - 2 of 2
Sort by
Labor rights are civil rights : Mexican American workers in twentieth-century America
Author:
ISBN: 0691134022 1299988091 069111546X 1400849284 9781400849284 9780691134024 9780691115467 Year: 2005 Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

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.

Working the boundaries : race, space, and illegality in Mexican Chicago
Author:
ISBN: 082233626X 0822336154 9780822336150 0822387093 1283022028 9786613022028 Year: 2005 Publisher: Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

Keywords

Mexican Americans --- Mexicans --- Immigrants --- Illegal aliens --- Nationalism --- Américains d'origine mexicaine --- Mexicains --- Immigrants clandestins --- Nationalisme --- Social conditions --- Social conditions. --- Study and teaching. --- Conditions sociales --- Etude et enseignement --- Chicago (Ill.) --- Mexico --- United States --- Mexique --- Etats-Unis --- Race relations. --- Emigration and immigration. --- Relations raciales --- Emigration et immigration --- #SBIB:39A6 --- Mexican American studies --- Aliens --- Aliens, Illegal --- Illegal immigrants --- Illegal immigration --- Undocumented aliens --- Alien detention centers --- Human smuggling --- Emigrants --- Foreign-born population --- Foreign population --- Foreigners --- Migrants --- Persons --- Ethnology --- Chicanos --- Hispanos --- Etniciteit / Migratiebeleid en -problemen --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Emigration and immigration --- Political aspects. --- Américains d'origine mexicaine --- Immigration --- International migration --- Migration, International --- Population geography --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Colonization --- Political aspects --- Study and teaching --- Chikago (Ill.) --- Chikaho (Ill.) --- City of Chicago (Ill.) --- Shiḳago (Ill.) --- Čikago (Ill.) --- شيكاغو (Ill.) --- Shīkāghū (Ill.) --- Çikaqo (Ill.) --- Чыкага (Ill.) --- Chykaha (Ill.) --- Чикаго (Ill.) --- Shikááʼgóó (Ill.) --- Σικάγο (Ill.) --- Sikago (Ill.) --- Kikako (Ill.) --- שיקגו (Ill.) --- Sicagum (Ill.) --- Chicagia (Ill.) --- Chiagum (Ill.) --- Čikāga (Ill.) --- シカゴ (Ill.) --- شکاگو (Ill.) --- Shikāgū (Ill.) --- Kyekago (Ill.) --- Tchicago (Ill.) --- שיקאגא (Ill.) --- Čėkaga (Ill.) --- 芝加哥 (Ill.) --- Zhijiage (Ill.) --- Noncitizens

Listing 1 - 2 of 2
Sort by