Bracero Railroaders
Erasmo Gamboa
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Description for Bracero Railroaders
Hardcover. Num Pages: 248 pages, 13 black & white illustrations, 1 black & white tables, 13 b&w illus., 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; 3JJ; HBWQ; JFFN; JFSL4; WGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 160 x 20. Weight in Grams: 477.
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 that sent a hundred thousand Mexican workers across the border to build and maintain railroad lines throughout the United States, particularly the West. Although both governments promised the workers adequate living arrangements and fair working conditions, most bracero railroaders lived in squalor, worked dangerous jobs, and were subject to harsh racial discrimination.
Making matters worse, the governments held a percentage of the workers’ earnings in a savings and retirement program that supposedly would ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Seattle, United States
ISBN
9780295998329
SKU
V9780295998329
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1
About Erasmo Gamboa
Erasmo Gamboa is professor of American ethnic studies at the University of Washington. He is the author of Mexican Labor and World War II: Braceros in the Pacific Northwest, 1942–1947.
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