The invisible workers of the U.S.-Mexico Bracero program : obreros olvidados /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Mize, Ronald L., 1970- author.
Imprint:	Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2016]
Description:	xvii, 229 pages ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Seasonal Farm Laborers Program. Seasonal Farm Laborers Program. Foreign workers, Mexican -- United States. Agricultural laborers, Foreign -- Government policy -- United States. Foreign workers, Mexican -- United States -- Social conditions. Foreign workers, Mexican -- Civil rights -- United States. Agricultural laborers, Foreign -- Government policy. Emigration and immigration -- Government policy. Foreign workers, Mexican. Foreign workers, Mexican -- Social conditions. United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy. United States.
Format:	E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10887270

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ISBN:	9781498517805 1498517803
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Other form:	Electronic version: Mize, Ronald L., 1970- Invisible workers of the U.S.-Mexico Bracero program. Lanham : Lexington Books, [2016] 9781498517812

Table of Contents:

Preface
Acknowledgments
1. The Invisible Workers of the U.S.-Mexican Bracero Program
2. Braceros and the Social Formation of Anglo Racial Frames
3. The Bracero Working Day and the Contested Terrain of Class Relations
4. The Making of the Bracero Total Institution
5. Conclusion: The Politics of Reparations and the Contemporary Bracero Redress Movement
Appendix I. The Articulation of Race and Class in the Making of the Bracero Total Institution
Appendix II. Working in the Field: Historical Memory, Archival Ethnography, and Direct Accounts of Agricultural Migrant Labor
Appendix III. The Standard Work Contract
Appendix IV. Original Bracero Agreement of 1942
Appendix V. Braceros from Mexican State of Origin, 1942-1946 and 1951-1964
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

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