Download or read book Traqueros written by Jeffrey Marcos Garcilazo and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps no other industrial technology changed the course of Mexican history in the United States--and Mexico--than did the coming of the railroads. Tens of thousands of Mexicans worked for the railroads in the United States, especially in the Southwest and Midwest. Construction crews soon became railroad workers proper, along with maintenance crews later. Extensive Mexican American settlements appeared throughout the lower and upper Midwest as the result of the railroad. The substantial Mexican American populations in these regions today are largely attributable to 19th- and 20th-century railroad work. Only agricultural work surpassed railroad work in terms of employment of Mexicans. The full history of Mexican American railroad labor and settlement in the United States had not been told, however, until Jeffrey Marcos Garcílazo's groundbreaking research in Traqueros. Garcílazo mined numerous archives and other sources to provide the first and only comprehensive history of Mexican railroad workers across the United States, with particular attention to the Midwest. He first explores the origins and process of Mexican labor recruitment and immigration and then describes the areas of work performed. He reconstructs the workers' daily lives and explores not only what the workers did on the job but also what they did at home and how they accommodated and/or resisted Americanization. Boxcar communities, strike organizations, and "traquero culture" finally receive historical acknowledgment. Integral to his study is the importance of family settlement in shaping working class communities and consciousness throughout the Midwest.

Download or read book The Railroad Worker written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 1326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Ghosts of Gold Mountain written by Gordon H. Chang and published by Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 2019 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking, breathtaking history of the Chinese workers who built the Transcontinental Railroad, helping to forge modern America only to disappear into the shadows of history until now.

Download or read book The Great Southwest Railroad Strike and Free Labor written by Theresa Ann Case and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book American Railroad Labor and the Genesis of the New Deal 1919 1935 written by Jon R. Huibregtse and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2010-04-11 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American historians tend to believe that labor activism was moribund in the years between the First World War and the New Deal. Jon Huibregtse challenges this perspective in his examination of the railroad unions of the time, arguing that not only were they active, but that they made a big difference in American Labor practices by helping to set legal precedents. Huibregtse explains how efforts by the Plumb Plan League and the Railroad Labor Executive Association created the Railroad Labor Act, its amendments, and the Railroad Retirement Act. These laws became models for the National Labor Relations Act and the Social Security Act. Unfortunately, the significant contributions of the railroad laws are, more often than not, overlooked when the NLRA or Social Security are discussed. Offering a new perspective on labor unions in the 1920s, Huibregtse describes how the railroad unions created a model for union activism that workers’ organizations followed for the next two decades.

Download or read book A Generation of Boomers written by Shelton Stromquist and published by Urbana : University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Railroad Worker written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Understanding the Railway Labor Act written by Frank N. Wilner and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Decisions of the United States Railroad Labor Board with Addenda and Interpretations written by United States Railroad Labor Board and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 1308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Report of the United States Railroad Labor Board April 15 1920 to December 31 1925 written by United States Railroad Labor Board and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Railroad Labor Disputes written by Gerald G. Eggert and published by Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1967 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical study of strikes in the railway transport industry in the USA - covers government policy in respect of labour disputes, dispute settlement, labour courts, collective bargaining, the role of the armed forces, unemployment, wages, etc. Bibliography pp. 285 to 295.

Download or read book Proceedings of the United States Railroad Labor Board written by United States Railroad Labor Board and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Labor and the Railroads written by James Octavius Fagan and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Decisions of the U S Railroad Labor Board with Addenda and Interpretations written by United States Railroad Labor Board and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Streets Railroads and the Great Strike of 1877 written by David O. Stowell and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1999-06 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For one week in late July of 1877, America shook with anger and fear as a variety of urban residents, mostly working class, attacked railroad property in dozens of towns and cities. The Great Strike of 1877 was one of the largest and most violent urban uprisings in American history. Whereas most historians treat the event solely as a massive labor strike that targeted the railroads, David O. Stowell examines America's predicament more broadly to uncover the roots of this rebellion. He studies the urban origins of the Strike in three upstate New York cities—Buffalo, Albany, and Syracuse. He finds that locomotives rumbled through crowded urban spaces, sending panicked horses and their wagons careening through streets. Hundreds of people were killed and injured with appalling regularity. The trains also disrupted street traffic and obstructed certain forms of commerce. For these reasons, Stowell argues, The Great Strike was not simply an uprising fueled by disgruntled workers. Rather, it was a grave reflection of one of the most direct and damaging ways many people experienced the Industrial Revolution. "Through meticulously crafted case studies . . . the author advances the thesis that the strike had urban roots, that in substantial part it represented a community uprising. . . .A particular strength of the book is Stowell's description of the horrendous accidents, the toll in human life, and the continual disruption of craft, business, and ordinary movement engendered by building railroads into the heart of cities."—Charles N. Glaab, American Historical Review

Download or read book The Railroad Labor Board written by Harry D. Wolf and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: