"Although Mexican migrant workers have toiled in the fields of the Pacific Northwest since the turn of the century, and although they comprise the largest work force in the region's agriculature today, they have been virtually invisible in the region's written labor history. [The author's] study of the bracero program during World War II is an important beginning, describing and documenting the labor history of Mexican and Chicano workers in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho and contributing to our knowledge of farm labor"--
"Although Mexican migrant workers have toiled in the fields of the Pacific Northwest since the turn of the century, and although they comprise the largest work force in the region's agriculature today, they have been virtually invisible in the region's written labor history. [The author's] study of the bracero program during World War II is an important beginning, describing and documenting the labor history of Mexican and Chicano workers in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho and contributing to our knowledge of farm labor"--
Erasmo Gamboa is associate professor of American Ethnic Studies at the University of Washington and author of Mexican Labor and World War II: Braceros in the Pacific Northwest, 1942-1947 (University of Washington Press, 2000).
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Foreword by Kevin Allen Leonard Preface to the 2000 Paperback Edition Acknowledgments Introduction Agribusiness and Mexican Migration World War II and the Farm Labor Crisis The Bracero Worker Huelgas: Bracero Strikes Bracero Social Life From braceros to Chicano Farm Migrant Workers Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
Foreword by Kevin Allen Leonard Preface to the 2000 Paperback Edition Acknowledgments Introduction Agribusiness and Mexican Migration World War II and the Farm Labor Crisis The Bracero Worker Huelgas: Bracero Strikes Bracero Social Life From braceros to Chicano Farm Migrant Workers Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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