Texas Labor History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Texas Labor History write by Bruce A. Glasrud. This book was released on 2013-02-20. Texas Labor History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A helpful new source for scholars and teachers who wish to fill in some of the missing pieces. Tackling a number of such presumptions—that a viable labor movement never existed in the Lone Star State; that black, brown, and white laborers, both male and female, were unable to achieve even short-term solidarity; that labor unions in Texas were ineffective because of laborers’ inability to confront employers—the editors and contributors to this volume lay the foundation for establishing the importance of labor to a fuller understanding of Texas history.
Chapters in the History of Organized Labor in Texas
Chapters in the History of Organized Labor in Texas - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Chapters in the History of Organized Labor in Texas write by Ruth Alice Allen. This book was released on 1941. Chapters in the History of Organized Labor in Texas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
From South Texas to the Nation
From South Texas to the Nation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From South Texas to the Nation write by John Weber. This book was released on 2015-08-25. From South Texas to the Nation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
A history of the Texas State Federation of Labor
A history of the Texas State Federation of Labor - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A history of the Texas State Federation of Labor write by Grady Lee Mullennix. This book was released on 1955. A history of the Texas State Federation of Labor available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Talkin' Union: Texas Women Workers
Talkin' Union: Texas Women Workers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Talkin' Union: Texas Women Workers write by Richard Croxdale. This book was released on 2019-06-19. Talkin' Union: Texas Women Workers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Talkin' Union tells the groundbreaking history of Texas women pecan shellers and garment workers who organized for economic and social equality in the '30s. Researchers with People's History in Texas relied on first-hand oral histories and extensive archival research to bring this story to life in 1979. Their material had limited distribution and is published with a 2019 introduction making this history available to a new generation. The Pecan Shellers Strike is now acknowledged as an historic mass movement and the foundation for Hispanic organizing for a generation. The Texas garment workers who organized in the '30s with the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union have never received the attention they deserve. Essays from 1979 about African American women and Chicanas in the Texas workforce capture the beginning of a sea change in women's workforce participation that would soon transform women's lives, family dynamics, and the U.S. economy.
