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Author | : Gordon H. Chang |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : China |
ISBN | : 1328618579 |
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A groundbreaking, breathtaking history of the Chinese workers who built the Transcontinental Railroad, helping to forge modern America only to disappear into the shadows of history until now.
Author | : Rae Andre |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780608080420 |
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Author | : Isabel Sawhill |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2018-01-01 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0300230362 |
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A sobering account of a disenfranchised American working class and important policy solutions to the nation's economic inequalities One of the country's leading scholars on economics and social policy, Isabel Sawhill addresses the enormous divisions in American society--economic, cultural, and political--and what might be done to bridge them. Widening inequality and the loss of jobs to trade and technology has left a significant portion of the American workforce disenfranchised and skeptical of governments and corporations alike. And yet both have a role to play in improving the country for all. Sawhill argues for a policy agenda based on mainstream values, such as family, education, and work. Although many have lost faith in government programs designed to help them, there are still trusted institutions on both the local and the federal level that can deliver better job opportunities and higher wages to those who have been left behind. At the same time, the private sector needs to reexamine how it trains and rewards employees. This book provides a clear-headed and middle-way path to a better-functioning society in which personal responsibility is honored and inclusive capitalism and more broadly shared growth are once more the norm.
Author | : Carrie Brown |
Publisher | : UPNE |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781555535353 |
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This book restores to history the lives of American women involved in war work during World War I.
Author | : Erasmo Gamboa |
Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2017-05-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0295998318 |
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Desperate for laborers to keep the trains moving during World War II, the U.S. and Mexican governments created a now mostly forgotten bracero railroad program that sent a hundred thousand Mexican workers across the border to build and maintain railroad lines throughout the United States, particularly the West. Although both governments promised the workers adequate living arrangements and fair working conditions, most bracero railroaders lived in squalor, worked dangerous jobs, and were subject to harsh racial discrimination. Making matters worse, the governments held a percentage of the workers’ earnings in a savings and retirement program that supposedly would await the men on their return to Mexico. However, rampant corruption within both the railroad companies and the Mexican banks meant that most workers were unable to collect what was rightfully theirs. Historian Erasmo Gamboa recounts the difficult conditions, systemic racism, and decades-long quest for justice these men faced. The result is a pathbreaking examination that deepens our understanding of Mexican American, immigration, and labor histories in the twentieth-century U.S. West.
Author | : Larkin Tackett |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Agricultural laborers |
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Author | : Rae André |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Social Science |
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Author | : Jeffrey Marcos Garcilazo |
Publisher | : University of North Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 157441464X |
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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 Garcílazo's groundbreaking research in Traqueros. Garcílazo 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.
Author | : ruth holland |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 1970 |
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Author | : Giorgia Bovolenta |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 1998 |
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