Handmade Brick for Texas
Subtitle: A Mexican Border Industry, Its Workers, and Its Business
By: Scott Cook
Publisher: LEXINGTON BOOKS; Lexington Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lanham, Maryland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9780739147979; 9780739147986
Copyright date: 2011
Subjects: Brick trade; Brickmaking
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foundations and Dimensions of Border Brick Culture; title: The Reynoso Brothers and the Brick Industry in Ejido Los Longoria; title: The Gas Line and the Capitalist Development of the Reynosa Brick Industry; title: Brick Fever: the Periurban Ejidos and the Field Boss System; title: Class Tensions, Collective Bargaining and Business Strategies; title: After the Collapse: Attrition and Survival of the Wood-Firing Ladrilleras; title: Survival of the Fittest: Gas-Firing Ladrilleras and Cross-Border Truckers; title: The Present and Future of Handmade Brick for Texas.