| #1100255 in Books | 2016-02-16 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.90 x.70 x5.90l,.0 | File type: PDF | 246 pages||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| review|By clipper841|interesting backstory of history, authors did their research, not a gloss over,i enjoyable read|0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| This book gives a detailed account of the Mexican Railroad ...|By Wayne D. Gome|This book gives a detailed account of the Mexican Railroad Worker in the Uni||
|“Traqueros is a significant contribution to the scholarly literature of United States labor history, Chicano social history, and ethnic labor history.”—Juan Gómez-Quiñones, author of Chicano Politics
Perhaps no other industrial technology changed the course of Mexican history in the United States—and Mexico—than did the coming of the railroads. Tens of thousands of Mexicans worked for the railroads in the United States, especially in the Southwest and Midwest. Construction crews soon became railroad workers proper, along with maintenance crews later. Extensive Mexican American settlements appeared throughout the lower and upper Midwest as the resu...
You easily download any file type for your gadget.Traqueros: Mexican Railroad Workers in the United States, 1870-1930 (Al Filo: Mexican American Studies Series) | Jeffrey Marcos Garcilazo. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!
