Labor rights are civil rights : Mexican American workers in twentieth-century America /

Vargas, Zaragosa.

Labor rights are civil rights : Mexican American workers in twentieth-century America / Zaragosa Vargas. - Princeton, N.J. ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, (c)2008, 2005. - 1 online resource (xvi, 375 pages) : illustrations. - Politics and society in twentieth-century America .

Originally published: 2005.

Includes bibliographies and index.

The author provides a history of the Mexican American labour movement in 20th-century America. The text looks at the complexities and contours of the Mexican American struggle for equality from the 1930s to the postwar era.



9781400849284


Mexican Americans--Employment--History--20th century.
Mexican Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century.
Labor movement--History--United States--20th century.


Electronic Books.

HD8081 / .L336 2008