Perhaps no other industrial technology changed thecourse of Mexican history in the United States andMexico as much as the arrival of the railroads. Tensof thousands of Mexicans worked for the railroadsin the United States, especially in the Southwest andMidwest. Extensive Mexican American settlementsappeared throughout the lower and upper Midwestas the result of the railroad. Jeffrey Marcos Garcílazoprovides the first and only comprehensive history ofMexican railroad workers across the United States.

“Traqueros is the first large-scale investigation ofthe substance and breadth of traqueros’ experiencesat work and in their ‘boxcar’ communities. . . .[Garcilazo’s] years of dedicated research haveyielded an intimate yet comprehensive portraitof Mexican immigrant track men and theircommunities.”—Journal of American History

“Garcilazo has made a powerful contribution tothe historiography of the railroads as well as thehistory of Mexican workers in the United States. .. . [I]t is refreshing at a time when analyses of therise of big business and railroads operate at a levelof abstraction that has left the picks and shovels ofcommon laborers barely discernible. Traqueros arean invisible labor force no longer.”—H-SHGAPE,H-Net Review
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Perhaps no other industrial technology changed the course of Mexican history in the US and Mexico as much as the arrival of the railroads. Tens of thousands of Mexicans worked for the railroads in the US, especially in the Southwest andMidwest. In this study, Jeffrey Marcos Garcílazo provides the first and only comprehensive history of Mexican railroad workers across the United States.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781574416275
Publisert
2016-02-28
Utgiver
Vendor
University of North Texas Press,U.S.
Vekt
333 gr
Høyde
226 mm
Bredde
149 mm
Dybde
17 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
277

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Biografisk notat

Jeffrey Marcos GarcÍlazo received hisdoctorate from the University of California at SantaBarbara and was assistant professor at the University ofCalifornia, Irvine, USA before his untimely death in 2001.

Vicki L. Ruiz is professor of history and Chicano/Latino studies at the University of California, Irvine, USA.