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 move

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, previo

For Mexican workers in Texas, industrialization meant worsening economic conditions and widespread discrimination. In this ground-breaking work, the author chal

Too often, observers and writers of Texas history have accepted assumptions about labor movements in the state—both organized and not—that do not bear up un

In so doing, Calderon revises the view that Mexican workers were careless and difficult to work with and documents their struggle for recognition and union orga