From South Texas To the Nation: The Exploitation of Mexican Labor in the Twentieth Century
John Weber
Abstract
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 exploita ... More
Keywords: South Texas, San Antonio, Lower Rio Grande Valley, Migration, Migrant (Migratory) Labor, Agribusiness, Labor Relations, US-Mexico Border, Immigration Restriction, Bracero Program
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2015 | Print ISBN-13: 9781469625232 |
| Published to North Carolina Scholarship Online: May 2016 | DOI:10.5149/northcarolina/9781469625232.001.0001 |
