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Texas labor history / edited by Bruce A. Glasrud and James C. Maroney.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Centennial series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University ; no. 119.
- Centennial series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University ; no. 119
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Labor--Texas--History--19th century.
- Labor.
- Labor--Texas--History--20th century.
- Labor movement--Texas--History--19th century.
- Labor movement.
- Labor movement--Texas--History--20th century.
- Labor unions--Texas--History--19th century.
- Labor unions.
- Labor unions--Texas--History--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (458 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- College Station : Texas A&M University Press, c2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Too often, observers and writers of Texas history have accepted assumptions about labor movements in the state-both organized and not-that do not bear up under the light of careful scrutiny. Offering a scholarly corrective to such misplaced suppositions, the studies in Texas Labor History provide a helpful new source for scholars and teachers who wish to fill in some of the missing pieces. Tackling a number of such presumptions-that a viable labor movement never existed in the Lone Star State; that black, brown, and white laborers, both male and f
- Contents:
- Introduction: the neglected heritage of Texas labor / James C. Maroney and Bruce A. Glasrud
- The early history of labor organizations in Texas, 1838-1876 / James V. Reese
- On empire's shore : free and unfree workers in Galveston, Texas, 1840-1860 / Robert S. Shelton
- The cowboy strike of 1883 : its causes and meaning / Robert E. Zeigler
- The radical potential of the Knights' biracialism : the 1885-1886 Gould system strikes and their aftermath / Theresa A. Case
- "Underground patriots" : Thurber coal miners and the struggle for industrial freedom, 1888-1903 / Marilyn D. Rhinehart
- The gospel of wealth goes south : John Henry Kirby and labor's struggle for self-determination, 1901-1916 / George T. Morgan Jr.
- Tenant farmer discontent and socialist protest in Texas, 1901-1917 / James R. Green
- The Texas-Louisiana oil field strike of 1917 / James C. Maroney
- Opening the closed shop : the Galveston longshoremen's strike of 1920-1921 / Joseph Abel
- Tejana radical : Emma Tenayuca and the San Antonio labor movement during the Great Depression / Zaragosa Vargas
- Unionizing the Trinity Portland Cement Company in Dallas, Texas, 1934-1939 / Gregg Andrews
- Discord in Dallas : auto workers, city fathers, and the Ford Motor Company, 1937-1941 / George N. Green
- Texas homeworkers in the Depression / Julia Kirk Blackwelder
- Black Texans and theater craft unionism : the struggle for racial equality / Ernest Obadele-Starks
- The failed promise of wartime opportunity for Mexicans in the Texas oil industry / Emilio Zamora
- No gold watch for Jim Crow's retirement : the abolition of segregated unionism at Houston's Hughes Tool Company / Michael R. Botson Jr.
- "Better to die on our feet than to live on our knees" : United Farm Workers and strikes in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, 1966-1967 / Mary Margaret McAllen Amberson
- Adelante compañeros : the sanitation worker's struggle in Lubbock, Texas, 1968-1972 / Yolanda G. Romero.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 405-420) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-60344-978-7
- OCLC:
- 841229553
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