Labor Rights Are Civil Rights
Subtitle: Mexican American Workers in Twentieth-Century America (Politics and Society in Twentieth Century America)
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: October 9, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780691134024
Subjects: American history: from c 1900 -; Economic history; Labour economics; Trade unions; 20th century; History; Politics / Current Events; History: American; USA; Labor & Industrial Relations - General; United States - 20th Century; United States - 20th Century/Depression; American History; History / United States / 20th Century; Latin American Studies; Political Science and International Relations; Ethnic Studies - Hispanic American Studies
First sentence: ABOUT 1,422,533 Mexicans lived in the United States in 1930, a figure representing a 75 percent growth in the Spanish-speaking population since the last census counts in 1920.