Texas labor historyedited by Bruce A. Glasrud and James C. Maroney. 

 - first edition. 
 - College Station :  Texas A&M University Press,  (c)2013. 
 - 1 online resource (viii, 444 pages) 
 - Centennial series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University ;  no. 119 .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction: the neglected heritage of Texas labor /  The early history of labor organizations in Texas, 1838-1876 /  On empire's shore : free and unfree workers in Galveston, Texas, 1840-1860 /  The cowboy strike of 1883 : its causes and meaning /  The radical potential of the Knights' biracialism : the 1885-1886 Gould system strikes and their aftermath /  "Underground patriots" : Thurber coal miners and the struggle for industrial freedom, 1888-1903 /  The gospel of wealth goes south : John Henry Kirby and labor's struggle for self-determination, 1901-1916 /  Tenant farmer discontent and socialist protest in Texas, 1901-1917 /  The Texas-Louisiana oil field strike of 1917 /  Opening the closed shop : the Galveston longshoremen's strike of 1920-1921 /  Tejana radical : Emma Tenayuca and the San Antonio labor movement during the Great Depression /  Unionizing the Trinity Portland Cement Company in Dallas, Texas, 1934-1939 /  Discord in Dallas : auto workers, city fathers, and the Ford Motor Company, 1937-1941 /  Texas homeworkers in the Depression /  Black Texans and theater craft unionism : the struggle for racial equality /  The failed promise of wartime opportunity for Mexicans in the Texas oil industry /  No gold watch for Jim Crow's retirement : the abolition of segregated unionism at Houston's Hughes Tool Company /  "Better to die on our feet than to live on our knees" : United Farm Workers and strikes in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, 1966-1967 /  Adelante compaņeros : the sanitation worker's struggle in Lubbock, Texas, 1968-1972 /  James C. Maroney and Bruce A. Glasrud --  James V. Reese --  Robert S. Shelton --  Robert E. Zeigler --  Theresa A. Case --  Marilyn D. Rhinehart --  George T. Morgan Jr. --  James R. Green --  James C. Maroney --  Joseph Abel --  Zaragosa Vargas --  Gregg Andrews --  George N. Green --  Julia Kirk Blackwelder --  Ernest Obadele-Starks --  Emilio Zamora --  Michael R. Botson Jr. --  Mary Margaret McAllen Amberson --  Yolanda G. Romero. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781603449786 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Labor--History--Texas--19th century.<br/>Labor--History--Texas--20th century.<br/>Labor movement--History--Texas--19th century.<br/>Labor movement--History--Texas--20th century.<br/>Labor unions--History--Texas--19th century.<br/>Labor unions--History--Texas--20th century.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HD8083  / .T493 2013