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Pages: 248
Authors: Erasmo Gamboa
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-05-01 - Publisher: University of Washington Press

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Desperate for laborers to keep the trains moving during World War II, the U.S. and Mexican governments created a now mostly forgotten bracero railroad program t
The Tracks North
Language: en
Pages: 260
Authors: Barbara A. Driscoll
Categories: History
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As part of a bilateral commitment to focus on winning World War II, over 100,000 contracts were signed between 1943 and 1945 to recruit and transport Mexican wo
Mexican Labor and World War II
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Pages: 217
Authors: Erasmo Gamboa
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-09-01 - Publisher: University of Washington Press

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“Although Mexican migrant workers have toiled in the fields of the Pacific Northwest since the turn of the century, and although they comprise the largest wor
The Railroad Bracero Program of World War II
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Pages: 256
Authors: Barbara Driscoll de Alvarado
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Grounds for Dreaming
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Known as “The Salad Bowl of the World,” California’s Salinas Valley became an agricultural empire due to the toil of diverse farmworkers, including Latino