From South Texas to the Nation
The Exploitation of Mexican Labor in the Twentieth Century
By John Weber
336 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 5 halftones, 4 maps, notes, bibl., index
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Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4696-2523-2
Published: October 2015 -
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4696-2524-9
Published: August 2015 -
Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4696-4557-5
Published: August 2018
David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History
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Awards & distinctions
Finalist, 2015 Weber-Clements Prize, Western History Association
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.
Published with support provided by the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas
About the Author
John Weber is associate professor of history at Old Dominion University.
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