Labor Rights are Civil Rights: Mexican American Workers in Twentieth-century AmericaPrinceton University Press, 2005 - 375 pagini 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 Rightspaints 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, 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. |
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We Are the Salt of the Earth Conditions among Mexican Workers in the Early Great Depression Years | 16 |
The Peregrinations and Tribulations of Tejano Cotton Harvesters | 18 |
Colorados Mexican Sugar Beet Workers | 27 |
Californias Mexican Farm Workers | 34 |
The Great Depression Hits the Mexicans of Texas and the Western States | 39 |
Limiting Relief to Mexicans | 43 |
The Repatriation Campaign Unfolds | 46 |
Causes and Consequences of Mexican Repatriation and Deportation | 55 |
MineMill and CTM Undertake an Organizing Drive in El Paso | 164 |
The CIO on Trail in El Paso | 168 |
The Push by Mexican American CIO Unionists for Labor and Civil Rights Continues | 170 |
Mexican American CIO Unionists Enter Lost Angeles War Defense Industries | 175 |
The Popular Front of the Congress of SpanishSpeaking Peoples | 179 |
Mexican Americans Battle the Sinarquistas | 188 |
Labor the Left and Sleepy Lagoon | 192 |
Mexican American Unionists Press On to End Discrimination | 198 |
Gaining Strength through the Union Mexican Labor Upheavals in the Era of the NRA | 62 |
Tejano Pickers Strike the El Paso Cotton District | 67 |
Radical Labor Unrest in the Colorado Beet Fields | 70 |
Strikes by Tejana Domestic Cigar and Garment Workers | 76 |
The Los Angeles Garment Workers Strike | 83 |
Los Angeles Furniture Workers Organize | 89 |
The 1933 Gallup New Mexico Coal Strike | 90 |
The National Miners Union Enters Gallup | 94 |
Martial Law Descends on Gallup | 97 |
Revolutionary Unionism at Work | 99 |
The Gallup Coal Strike Escalates | 103 |
The Gallup Coal Strike Ends | 105 |
The Crusade against Foreigners and Subversives | 108 |
Do You See the Light? Mexican American Workers and CIO Organizing | 114 |
The Labor Offensive in South Texas and CrossBorder Organizing | 117 |
Emma Tenaryuca La Pasionaria | 123 |
Emma Tebayucas Work in the Unemployed Councils and the Workers Alliance of America | 126 |
The 1938 Pecan Shellers Strike | 134 |
Emma Tenayuca Pens The Mexican Question in the Southwest | 143 |
The Downfall of Emma Tenayuca | 146 |
UCAPAWA and Colorados Mexican Sugar Beet Workers | 148 |
UCAPAWA Organizes Cannery and Food Processing Workers in California | 150 |
Mexican American CIO Unionists Organize Los Angeles | 154 |
Advocates of Racial Democracy Mexican American Workers Fight for Labor and Civil Rights in the Early World War II Years | 158 |
The Case of MineMill and Mexican American miners and Smelter Workers | 162 |
The Lie of Americas Greatest Generation Mexican Americans Fight against Prejudice Intolerance and Hatred during World War II | 203 |
The Predicament of Tejanos | 206 |
Mexican American Women War Workers | 212 |
The Case of the SpanishSpeaking of New Mexico | 214 |
Colorados Mexican Americans | 217 |
The Mexican Copper Miners of Arizona | 220 |
The Further Segregation of Mexican Americans in Wartime Los Angeles | 224 |
The Racial Assault against Mexicans in Los Angeles | 227 |
Getting the Union Involved against Discrimination in Los Angeles | 232 |
Focusing Government Efforts on Racial Inequality | 235 |
The Beginnings of the Mexican Contract Labor Program | 238 |
The Federal Government Race Relations and Mexican Americans | 243 |
Fighting Racism within Labors Ranks | 246 |
Labor Rights Are Civil Rights The Emergence of the Mexican American Civil Rights Struggle | 252 |
Expression of the Mexican American Union Movement and Its Repression | 254 |
Mexican Americans Fight for an FEPC Bill | 258 |
Mexican Americans Fight Racism | 260 |
Mexican American Job Loss after the War | 265 |
The RightWing Backlash against the Mexican American Struggle for Labor and Civil Rights | 270 |
Achieving Mexican American Civil Rights through the Ballot Box | 273 |
Mexican American Workers Confront Braceros and the Wetback Tide | 277 |
Conclusion | 281 |
Notes | 291 |
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