Handmade Brick for Texas: A Mexican Border Industry, Its Workers, and Its Business

by Scott Cook

Book Overview

Brickmaking was one of the pioneering non-agricultural manufacturing industries in the lower Rio Grande/Rio Bravo corridor, and a precursor of the binational, cross-border maquiladora industry that came to identify the U.S.-Mexico border economy in the aftermath of the Border Industrialization Program BIP] launched in 1965. Through research beginning in the early 1990s and continuing to the present, Scott Cook has sought to fill in these blank pages...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739147978
• ISBN13: 9780739147979
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.0"