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Author Weber, John, 1978- author.

Title From South Texas to the nation : the exploitation of Mexican labor in the twentieth century / John Weber
Published Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2015]
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 320 pages)
Series The David J. Weber series in the new borderlands history
David J. Weber series in the new borderlands history.
Contents Part I: Revolutions -- Part II: Securing the Revolution -- Part III: Challenging the Revolution -- Part IV: The Shadow of the Revolution
Summary In the early years of the twentieth century, newcomer farmers and migrant Mexicans forged a new world in South Texas. In just a decade, this vast region, previously considered too isolated and desolate for large-scale agriculture, became one of the United States' most lucrative farming regions and one of its worst places to work. By encouraging mass migration from Mexico, paying low wages, selectively enforcing immigration restrictions, toppling older political arrangements, and periodically immobilizing the workforce, growers created a system of labor controls unique in its levels of exploitation. Ethnic Mexican residents of South Texas fought back by organizing and by leaving, migrating to destinations around the United States where employers eagerly hired them--and continued to exploit them. In From South Texas to the Nation, John Weber reinterprets the United States' record on human and labor rights. This important book illuminates the way in which South Texas pioneered the low-wage, insecure, migration-dependent labor system on which so many industries continue to depend
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Online resource (HeinOnline, viewed July 13, 2020)
Subject Foreign workers, Mexican -- Texas -- History -- 20th century
Migrant agricultural laborers -- Texas -- History -- 20th century
Mexican American agricultural laborers -- Texas -- History -- 20th century
Unfair labor practices -- Texas -- History -- 20th century
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
Emigration and immigration -- Economic aspects
Foreign workers, Mexican
Mexican American agricultural laborers
Migrant agricultural laborers
Unfair labor practices
SUBJECT Mexico -- Emigration and immigration -- Economic aspects -- History -- 20th century
United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Economic aspects -- History -- 20th century
Mexico -- Emigration and immigration -- Economic aspects -- History -- 20th century
Subject Mexico
Texas
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
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