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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mize, Ronald L., 1970- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Seasonal Farm Laborers Program.

Foreign workers, Mexican--United States.

Foreign workers, Mexican.

Agricultural laborers, Foreign--Government policy--United States.

Agricultural laborers, Foreign.

Foreign workers, Mexican--United States--Social conditions.

Foreign workers, Mexican--Civil rights--United States.

United States--Emigration and immigration--Government policy.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 pages)

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2016.

Summary:

As the first and largest guestworker program, the U.S.-Mexico Bracero Program (1942-1964) codified the unequal relations of labor migration between the two nations. This book interrogates the articulations of race and class in the making of the Bracero Program by introducing new syntheses of sociological theories and methods to center the experiences and recollections of former Braceros and their families.

Contents:

The invisible workers of the U.S.-Mexican Bracero program

Braceros and the social formation of Anglo racial frames

The Bracero working day and the contested terrain of class relations

The making of the Bracero "total" institution

Conclusion: the politics of reparations and the contemporary Bracero redress movement.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4985-1781-1