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Bracero Railroaders
Language: en
Pages: 248
Authors: Erasmo Gamboa
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-05-01 - Publisher: University of Washington Press

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Desperate for laborers to keep the trains moving during World War II, the U.S. and Mexican governments created a now mostly forgotten bracero railroad program t
The Tracks North
Language: en
Pages: 260
Authors: Barbara A. Driscoll
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999 - Publisher: University of Texas Press

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As part of a bilateral commitment to focus on winning World War II, over 100,000 contracts were signed between 1943 and 1945 to recruit and transport Mexican wo
Mexican Labor and World War II
Language: en
Pages: 217
Authors: Erasmo Gamboa
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-09-01 - Publisher: University of Washington Press

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“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 wor
Braceros
Language: en
Pages: 360
Authors: Deborah Cohen
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-02-15 - Publisher: UNC Press Books

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At the beginning of World War II, the United States and Mexico launched the bracero program, a series of labor agreements that brought Mexican men to work tempo
Grounds for Dreaming
Language: en
Pages: 260
Authors: Lori A. Flores
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-01-05 - Publisher: Yale University Press

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Known as “The Salad Bowl of the World,” California’s Salinas Valley became an agricultural empire due to the toil of diverse farmworkers, including Latino