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From South Texas to the Nation: The Exploitation of Mexican Labor in the Twentieth Century (The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History)

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In the early years of the twentieth century, newcomer farmers and migrant Mexicans forged a new world in South Texas. In only a decade, this vast region, up to now thought to be too isolated and desolate for large-scale agriculture, became one of the vital United States’ most lucrative farming regions and one among its worst places to work. By encouraging mass migration from Mexico, paying low wages, selectively enforcing immigration restrictions, toppling older political arrangements, and periodically immobilizing the personnel, growers created a system of labor controls unique in its levels of exploitation.

Ethnic Mexican residents of South Texas fought back by organizing and by leaving, migrating to destinations around the USA where employers eagerly hired them–and continued to exploit them. In From South Texas to the Nation, John Weber reinterprets the USA’ record on human and labor rights. This essential book illuminates the best way in which South Texas pioneered the low-wage, insecure, migration-dependent labor system on which such a lot of industries continue to depend.

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