Perhaps no other industrial technology changed thecourse of Mexican history in the United States andMexico as much as the arrival of the railroads. Tensof thousands of Mexicans worked for the railroadsin the United States, especially in the Southwest andMidwest. Extensive Mexican American settlementsappeared throughout the lower and upper Midwestas the result of the railroad. Jeffrey Marcos Garcilazoprovides the first and only comprehensive history ofMexican railroad workers across the United States. Traqueros is the first large-scale investigation ofthe substance and breadth of traqueros' experiencesat work and in their `boxcar' communities. . . .[Garcilazo's] years of dedicated research haveyielded an intimate yet comprehensive portraitof Mexican immigrant track men and theircommunities. -Journal of American History Garcilazo has made a powerful contribution tothe historiography of the railroads as well as thehistory of Mexican workers in the United States. .. . [I]t is refreshing at a time when analyses of therise of big business and railroads operate at a levelof abstraction that has left the picks and shovels ofcommon laborers barely discernible. Traqueros arean invisible labor force no longer. -H-SHGAPE,H-Net Review
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of North Texas Press,U.S.
ISBN-13
9781574416275
eBay Product ID (ePID)
222208488
Product Key Features
Author
Jeffrey Marcos Garcilazo
Publication Name
Traqueros: Mexican Railroad Workers in the United States, 1870-1930
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
History
Publication Year
2016
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
277 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
229mm
Item Width
152mm
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Jeffrey Marcos Garcilazo
Series Title
Al Filo: Mexican American Studies Series
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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