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Proletarians of the North : Mexican Industrial Workers in Detroit and the
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Proletarians of the North : Mexican Industrial Workers in Detroit and the Midwest, 1917-1933 (Latinos in American Society and Culture, #1) (Volume 1) Paperback - 1999

by Vargas, Zaragosa

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At the end of World War I one of the largest regional migrations of American workers was launched by the expansion of production in steel, automobile, rubber, and electrical manufacturing in the North.

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"A well-documented and persuasive description of the experiences and aspirations of the thousands of Mexicans who migrated to the Midwest in search of employment between the First World War and the Great Depression of the 1930s."--David Montgomery, Yale University

"An important contribution to a small but rapidly expanding historical literature that documents the variety and complexity of the Mexican experience in the United States. . . . Vargas not only illuminates an aspect of that experience that has been little appreciated and understood by students of Chicano history, but also offers compelling evidence that bringing Mexican workers into full view requires scholars to look through the prism of class as well as the prism of ethnicity. . . . A fine book that is certain to inform and challenge ethnic and labor historians alike."--Clete Daniel, Industrial and Labor Relations

About the author

Zaragosa Vargas is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and is the editor of Major Problems in Mexican American History (1999).