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The World of the Mexican Worker in Texas by Emilio Zamora |
the T. R. Fehrenbach Award from the Texas Historical Commission
This award-winning study, first published in 1993, was the first to examine early labor organization efforts by Mexican-origin workers in Texas.
Zamora challenges the stereotypical depiction of Mexican workers as passive and hard to organize. Through extensive use of Spanish-language archives, Zamora examines workers' cooperative organizations and their gradual integration into the mainstream labor movement. In addition, he discusses the special role Mexican labor played in bridging labor struggles across the border and in challenging racial exclusion in predominantly Anglo labor federations.
"This splendid work enlarges the ethnic and geographic boundaries of southern working class history and in its sensitive and vigorous treatment of Mexican workers it does honor to them . . . "—Robert H. Zieger, University of Florida
"Zamora's historical study will be of great interest to those studying race relations and labor in Texas during the early twentieth century."—Contemporary Sociology
"Zamora's study should end the nonsense about Mexican passivity. . . . This book is essential reading for anyone dealing with race relations or labor history in the Southwest."—Southwestern Historical Quarterly
"Zamora provides a sophisticated insight into the causes and complexities of Mexican working-class thought and local institutions . . . "—Journal of American History
"An outstanding contribution to United States labor and ethnic studies."—Juan Gómez-Quiñones, UCLA
EMILIO ZAMORA is an associate professor of history at the University of Houston.
Number Forty-four: The Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University
The World of the Mexican Worker in Texas
+ ISBN 0-89096-678-8 paper $19.95s
LC 92-24813. 6x9. 304 pp. 24 b&w photos.
9 tables. Bib. Index.
Social Sciences. Multicultural Topics.
Publication Date: 1995.
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