The Railroads of Mexico
Title | The Railroads of Mexico PDF eBook |
Author | Fred Wilbur Powell |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 246 |
Release | 1921 |
Genre | Railroads |
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Railways of Mexico
Title | Railways of Mexico PDF eBook |
Author | William Rodney Long |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 240 |
Release | 1925 |
Genre | Railroads |
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The Railway Invasion of Mexico
Title | The Railway Invasion of Mexico PDF eBook |
Author | Walther Immanuel Brandt |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 280 |
Release | 1917 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
The Railway Revolution in Mexico
Title | The Railway Revolution in Mexico PDF eBook |
Author | Bernard Moses |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 108 |
Release | 1895 |
Genre | Mexico |
ISBN |
Railways in Mexico
Title | Railways in Mexico PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 26 |
Release | 1882 |
Genre | Railroads |
ISBN |
Facts and Figures about Mexico and its great railway system, the National Railways of Mexico. Issued by the General Passenger Department of the National Railways of Mexico. [With illustrations.].
Title | Facts and Figures about Mexico and its great railway system, the National Railways of Mexico. Issued by the General Passenger Department of the National Railways of Mexico. [With illustrations.]. PDF eBook |
Author | Mexico. National Railways |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 96 |
Release | 1909 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Traqueros
Title | Traqueros PDF eBook |
Author | Jeffrey Marcos Garcilazo |
Publisher | University of North Texas Press |
Total Pages | 244 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 157441464X |
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 result of the railroad. The substantial Mexican American populations in these regions today are largely attributable to 19th- and 20th-century railroad work. Only agricultural work surpassed railroad work in terms of employment of Mexicans. The full history of Mexican American railroad labor and settlement in the United States had not been told, however, until Jeffrey Marcos GarcĂlazo's groundbreaking research in Traqueros. GarcĂlazo mined numerous archives and other sources to provide the first and only comprehensive history of Mexican railroad workers across the United States, with particular attention to the Midwest. He first explores the origins and process of Mexican labor recruitment and immigration and then describes the areas of work performed. He reconstructs the workers' daily lives and explores not only what the workers did on the job but also what they did at home and how they accommodated and/or resisted Americanization. Boxcar communities, strike organizations, and "traquero culture" finally receive historical acknowledgment. Integral to his study is the importance of family settlement in shaping working class communities and consciousness throughout the Midwest.