Labor rights are civil rights : Mexican American workers in twentieth-century America

Labor rights are civil rights : Mexican American workers in twentieth-century America /

"Labor Rights Are Civil Rights paints a multifaceted portrait of the complexities and contours of the Mexican American struggle for equality from the 1930s to the postwar era." "Drawing on extensive archival research, Vargas focuses on the large Mexican American communities in Texas,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vargas, Zaragosa
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2005.
Series:Politics and society in twentieth-century America
Subjects:
1900 - 1999
Mexican Americans > Employment > History > 20th century.
Labor movement > United States > History > 20th century.
Mexican Americans > Civil rights > History > 20th century.
Américains d'origine mexicaine > Travail > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Mouvement ouvrier > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Américains d'origine mexicaine > Droits > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Labor movement.
Mexican Americans > Civil rights.
Mexican Americans > Employment.
Mexicaanse Amerikanen.
Arbeiders.
Vakbeweging.
Mensenrechten.
Gewerkschaftsbewegung.
Beschäftigung.
Bürgerrechtsbewegung.
United States.
Verenigde Staten.
USA.
Hispanos.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. We are the salt of the earth : conditions among Mexican workers in the early Great Depression years
  • The "big swing" : the peregrinations and tribulations of Tejano cotton harvesters
  • "In the land of bondage" : Colorado's Mexican sugar beet workers
  • Summer in the country : California's Mexican farm workers
  • The Great Depression hits the Mexicans of Texas and the Western states
  • Work, leave, or starve : limiting relief to Mexicans
  • "Send them back to where they came from" : the repatriation campaign unfolds
  • Causes and consequences of Mexican repatriation and deportation
  • 2. Gaining strength through the union : Mexican labor upheavals in the era of the NRA
  • Revolt in the cotton fields : Tejano pickers strike the El Paso cotton district
  • Radical labor unrest in the Colorado beet fields
  • In unity there is strength : strikes by Tejana domestic, cigar, and garment workers
  • Learning the lessons of rank-and-file trade unionism : the Los Angeles garment workers' strike
  • For the union : Los Angeles furniture workers organize
  • "Are you a Bolshey?" : the 1933 Gallup, New Mexico, coal strike
  • The red menace : the National Miners Union enter Gallup
  • Guns, bayonets, and clubs : martial law descends on Gallup
  • Revolutionary unionism at work
  • Class against class : the Gallup coal strike escalates
  • A Pyrrhic victory : the Gallup coal strike ends
  • The big payback : the crusade against foreigners and subversives
  • 3. "Do you see the light?" : Mexican American workers and CIO organizing
  • The labor offensive in South Texas and cross-border organizing
  • A power to be reckoned with : Emma Tenayuca, La Pasionaria
  • "She's nothing but a damned communist" : Emma Tenayuca's work in the Unemployed Councils and the Workers' Alliance of America
  • "The CIO doesn't exist here" : the 1938 pecan shellers' strike
  • Educating the party : Emma Tenayuca pens "The Mexican question in the Southwest"
  • "Pushing back the red tide" : the downfall of Emma Tenayuca
  • Left behind : UCAPAWA and Colorado's Mexican sugar beet workers
  • Shifting gears : UCAPAWA organizes cannery and food processing workers in California
  • Collective action : Mexican American CIO unionists organize Los Angeles.
  • 4. Advocates of racial democracy : Mexican American workers fight for labor and civil rights in the early World War II years
  • Inclusive unionism : the case of mine-mill and Mexican American miners and smelter workers
  • "A society without classes" : mine-mill and CTM undertake an organizing drive in El Paso
  • Texas showdown : the CIO on trial in El Paso
  • The push by Mexican American CIO unionists for labor and civil rights continues
  • Getting a foot in the door : Mexican American CIO unionists enter Los Angeles war defense industries
  • Allies of labor : the popular front of the congress of Spanish-speaking peoples
  • Suppressing fascism : Mexican Americans battle the Sinarquistas
  • Labor, the left, and Sleepy Lagoon
  • Mexican American unionists press on to end discrimination
  • 5. The lie of "America's greatest generation" : Mexican Americans fight against prejudice, intolerance, and hatred during World War II
  • Eternal victims of race hatred : the predicament of Tejanos
  • "Working overtime on the riveting machine" : Mexican American women war workers
  • Fleeing poverty : the case of the Spanish-speaking of New Mexico
  • Remaining separate and unequal : Colorado's Mexican Americans
  • "Stolid and stunned, brother to the ox" : the Mexican copper miners of Arizona
  • "Dirty, noisy, and lawless" : the further segregation of Mexican Americans in wartime Los Angeles
  • "It's the American way" : the racial assault against Mexicans in Los Angeles
  • Getting the union involved against discrimination in Los Angeles
  • Focusing government efforts on racial inequality
  • The beginnings of the Mexican Contract Labor Program
  • No freedom from fear : the federal government, race relations, and Mexican Americans
  • "They just don't get it" : fighting racism within labor's ranks
  • 6. Labor rights are civil rights : the emergence of the Mexican American civil rights struggle
  • Expressions of the Mexican American union movement and its repression
  • Mexican Americans fight for an FEPC bill
  • "Nothing--we shot a Mexican" : Mexican Americans fight racism
  • Last hired, first fired : Mexican American job loss after the war
  • The right-wing backlash against the Mexican American struggle for labor and civil rights
  • Achieving Mexican American civil rights through the ballot box
  • Mexican American workers confront braceros and the wetback tide.

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