Labor Rights Are Civil Rights: Mexican American Workers in Twentieth-Century America

by Zaragosa Vargas

Book Overview

In 1937, Mexican workers were among the strikers and supporters beaten, arrested, and murdered by Chicago policemen in the now infamous Republic Steel Mill Strike. Using this event as a springboard, Zaragosa Vargas embarks on the first full-scale history of the Mexican-American labor movement in twentieth-century America. Absorbing and meticulously researched, Labor Rights Are Civil Rightspaints a multifaceted portrait of the complexities...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691134022
• ISBN13: 9780691134024
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"