Author: Industrial Workers of the WorldPublisher:
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages :
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To All Railroad Workers
Author: Industrial Workers of the WorldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages :
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Traqueros
Author: Jeffrey Marcos GarcilazoPublisher: University of North Texas Press
ISBN: 157441464X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
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.
A Union for All Railroad Workers
Author: Industrial Workers of the World. Railroad Workers Industrial Union no. 520Publisher:
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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The Railroad Worker
Author: The Railroad Worker
Author: Working on the Railroad
Author: Brian SolomonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781610600149
Category : Law firms
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
A Union for All Railroad Workers
Author: Industrial Workers of the WorldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 38
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Railroad Worker
Author: A Union for All Railroad Workers
Author: The Great Southwest Railroad Strike and Free Labor
Author: Theresa A. CasePublisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1603441700
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Focusing on a story largely untold until now, Theresa A. Case studies the "Great Southwest Strike of 1886," which pitted entrepreneurial freedom against the freedom of employees to have a collective voice in their workplace. This series of local actions involved a historic labor agreement followed by the most massive sympathy strike the nation had ever seen. It attracted western railroaders across lines of race and skill, contributed to the rise and decline of the first mass industrial union in U.S. history (the Knights of Labor), and brought new levels of federal intervention in railway strikes. Case takes a fresh look at the labor unrest that shook Jay Gould's railroad empire in Texas, Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas, and Illinois. In Texas towns and cities like Marshall, Dallas, Fort Worth, Palestine, Texarkana, Denison, and Sherman, union recognition was the crucial issue of the day. Case also powerfully portrays the human facets of this strike, reconstructing the story of Martin Irons, a Scottish immigrant who came to adopt the union cause as his own. Irons committed himself wholly to the failed strike of 1886, continuing to urge violence even as courts handed down injunctions protecting the railroads, national union leaders publicly chastised him, the press demonized him, and former strikers began returning to work. Irons’s individual saga is set against the backdrop of social, political, and economic changes that transformed the region in the post–Civil War era. Students, scholars, and general readers interested in railroad, labor, social, or industrial history will not want to be without The Great Southwest Railroad Strike and Free Labor.