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From South Texas to the Nation: The Exploitation of Mexican Labor in the Twentieth Century
written by John Weber, 1978- (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2015, originally published 2015), 335 page(s)
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...
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written by John Weber, 1978- (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2015, originally published 2015), 335 page(s)
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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...
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.
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World History
Content Type
Book
Author / Creator
John Weber, 1978-
Date Published / Released
2015
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Topic / Theme
Mexico and the United States Border, Farm workers, Blue collar workers, Geography, Mexicans, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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The royal commission appointed to inquire into the immigration of Italian labourers to Montreal and the alleged fraudulent practices of empl...
written by Canada. Department of Employment and Social Development Canada (Ottawa, ON: S. E. Dawson (Publisher), 1905, originally published 1905), 222 page(s)
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written by Canada. Department of Employment and Social Development Canada (Ottawa, ON: S. E. Dawson (Publisher), 1905, originally published 1905), 222 page(s)
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Global Issues
Content Type
Government/institutional document
Author / Creator
Canada. Department of Employment and Social Development Canada
Date Published / Released
1905
Publisher
S. E. Dawson (Publisher)
Topic / Theme
Canada and the United States Border, Labor laws, Immigrant populations, Law, History, Italians, Industrialization and Western Global Hegemony (1750–1914)
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Seeds of Empire: Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800-1850
written by Andrew J. Torget, 1978- (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2015, originally published 2015), 368 page(s)
By the late 1810s, a global revolution in cotton had remade the U.S.-Mexico border, bringing wealth and waves of Americans to the Gulf Coast while also devastating the lives and villages of Mexicans in Texas. In response, Mexico threw open its northern territories to American farmers in hopes that cotton could bri...
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written by Andrew J. Torget, 1978- (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2015, originally published 2015), 368 page(s)
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By the late 1810s, a global revolution in cotton had remade the U.S.-Mexico border, bringing wealth and waves of Americans to the Gulf Coast while also devastating the lives and villages of Mexicans in Texas. In response, Mexico threw open its northern territories to American farmers in hopes that cotton could bring prosperity to the region. Thousands of Anglo-Americans poured into Texas, but their insistence that slavery accompany them sparked p...
By the late 1810s, a global revolution in cotton had remade the U.S.-Mexico border, bringing wealth and waves of Americans to the Gulf Coast while also devastating the lives and villages of Mexicans in Texas. In response, Mexico threw open its northern territories to American farmers in hopes that cotton could bring prosperity to the region. Thousands of Anglo-Americans poured into Texas, but their insistence that slavery accompany them sparked pitched battles across Mexico. An extraordinary alliance of Anglos and Mexicans in Texas came together to defend slavery against abolitionists in the Mexican government, beginning a series of fights that culminated in the Texas Revolution. In the aftermath, Anglo-Americans rebuilt the Texas borderlands into the most unlikely creation: the first fully committed slaveholders' republic in North America. Seeds of Empire tells the remarkable story of how the cotton revolution of the early nineteenth century transformed northeastern Mexico into the western edge of the United States, and how the rise and spectacular collapse of the Republic of Texas as a nation built on cotton and slavery proved to be a blueprint for the Confederacy of the 1860s.
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World History
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Book
Author / Creator
Andrew J. Torget, 1978-
Date Published / Released
2015, September 2015
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Topic / Theme
Mexico and the United States Border, Slavery, Slavery and Abolition, 1776 - 1865, Sociology, History, Mexicans, Industrialization and Western Global Hegemony (1750–1914)
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Standing on Common Ground
written by Geraldo L. Cadava, fl. 2008 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013, originally published 2013), 320 page(s)
Under constant surveillance and policed by increasingly militarized means, Arizona’s border is portrayed in the media as a site of sharp political and ethnic divisions. But this view obscures the region’s deeper history. Bringing to light the shared cultural and commercial ties through which businessmen and po...
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written by Geraldo L. Cadava, fl. 2008 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013, originally published 2013), 320 page(s)
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Under constant surveillance and policed by increasingly militarized means, Arizona’s border is portrayed in the media as a site of sharp political and ethnic divisions. But this view obscures the region’s deeper history. Bringing to light the shared cultural and commercial ties through which businessmen and politicians forged a transnational Sunbelt, Standing on Common Ground recovers the vibrant connections between Tucson, Arizona, and the n...
Under constant surveillance and policed by increasingly militarized means, Arizona’s border is portrayed in the media as a site of sharp political and ethnic divisions. But this view obscures the region’s deeper history. Bringing to light the shared cultural and commercial ties through which businessmen and politicians forged a transnational Sunbelt, Standing on Common Ground recovers the vibrant connections between Tucson, Arizona, and the neighboring Mexican state of Sonora. Geraldo L. Cadava corrects misunderstandings of the borderland’s past and calls attention to the many types of exchange, beyond labor migrations, that demonstrate how the United States and Mexico continue to shape one another.In the 1940s, a flourishing cross-border traffic developed in the Arizona–Sonora Sunbelt, as the migrations of entrepreneurs, tourists, shoppers, and students maintained a densely connected transnational corridor. Politicians on both sides worked to cultivate a common ground of free enterprise, spurring the growth of manufacturing, ranching, and agriculture. However, as Cadava illustrates, these modernizing forces created conditions that marginalized the very workers who propped up the regional economy, and would eventually lead to the social and economic instability that has troubled the Arizona–Sonora borderland in recent times.Grounded in rich archival materials and oral histories, Standing on Common Ground clarifies why we cannot understand today’s fierce debates over illegal immigration and border enforcement without identifying the roots of these problems in the Sunbelt’s complex pan-ethnic and transnational history.
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Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Book
Author / Creator
Geraldo L. Cadava, fl. 2008
Date Published / Released
2013
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Topic / Theme
Mexico and the United States Border, International relations, Trade and commerce, Migration, Crossing borders, Politics & Policy, History, Americans, Mexicans, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Copyright © 2013 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. All rights reserved. Used by permission of Harvard University Press.
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Theses Sobre Colonização do Brazil: Projecto de Solução a's Questões Sociaes, que se Prendem a Este Difficil Problema
written by João Cardoso de Menezes e Souza, 1827-1915 (Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro State: Typographia Nacional, 1875, originally published 1875), 524 page(s)
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written by João Cardoso de Menezes e Souza, 1827-1915 (Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro State: Typographia Nacional, 1875, originally published 1875), 524 page(s)
Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Government/institutional document
Author / Creator
João Cardoso de Menezes e Souza, 1827-1915
Date Published / Released
1875
Publisher
Typographia Nacional
Topic / Theme
Argentina and its Borders, Government policy, Economic conditions, Immigration and emigration, Politics & Policy, History, Sociology, Brazilians, Industrialization and Western Global Hegemony (1750–1914)
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Trabalhadores Asiaticos
written by Salvador de Mendonça, 1841-1913 (New York, NY: Typographia do Novo Mundo, 1879, originally published 1879), 287 page(s)
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written by Salvador de Mendonça, 1841-1913 (New York, NY: Typographia do Novo Mundo, 1879, originally published 1879), 287 page(s)
Field of Study
Global Issues
Content Type
Government/institutional document
Author / Creator
Salvador de Mendonça, 1841-1913
Date Published / Released
1879
Publisher
Typographia do Novo Mundo
Topic / Theme
China and its Borders, Immigration laws, Immigrant populations, Labor force, Law, Sociology, History, Brazilians, Americans, Chinese, Industrialization and Western Global Hegemony (1750–1914)
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The Traffic in Babies: Cross-Border Adoption and Baby-Selling between the United States and Canada, 1930-1972
written by Karen A. Balcom, 1965- (Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press, 2011, originally published 2011), 385 page(s)
Between 1930 and the mid-1970s, several thousand Canadian-born children were adopted by families in the United States. At times, adopting across the border was a strategy used to deliberately avoid professional oversight and take advantage of varying levels of regulation across states and provinces. The Traffic in...
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written by Karen A. Balcom, 1965- (Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press, 2011, originally published 2011), 385 page(s)
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Between 1930 and the mid-1970s, several thousand Canadian-born children were adopted by families in the United States. At times, adopting across the border was a strategy used to deliberately avoid professional oversight and take advantage of varying levels of regulation across states and provinces. The Traffic in Babies traces the efforts of Canadian and American child welfare leaders—with intermittent support from immigration officials, polit...
Between 1930 and the mid-1970s, several thousand Canadian-born children were adopted by families in the United States. At times, adopting across the border was a strategy used to deliberately avoid professional oversight and take advantage of varying levels of regulation across states and provinces. The Traffic in Babies traces the efforts of Canadian and American child welfare leaders—with intermittent support from immigration officials, politicians, police, and criminal prosecutors—to build bridges between disconnected jurisdictions and control the flow of babies across the Canada-U.S. border. Karen A. Balcom details the dramatic and sometimes tragic history of cross-border adoptions—from the Ideal Maternity Home case and the Alberta Babies-for-Export scandal to trans-racial adoptions of Aboriginal children. Exploring how and why babies were moved across borders, The Traffic in Babies is a fascinating look at how social workers and other policy makers tried to find the birth mothers, adopted children, and adoptive parents who disappeared into the spaces between child welfare and immigration laws in Canada and the United States.
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Field of Study
Global Issues
Content Type
Book
Author / Creator
Karen A. Balcom, 1965-
Date Published / Released
2011
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Topic / Theme
Canada and the United States Border, Children, Human trafficking, History, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Copyright © 2011 University of Toronto Press
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