Latino Employment, Labor Organizations and Immigration (Latinos in the United States, Vol 4)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: December 1, 1994
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 398
ISBN-13: 9780815317739
Subjects: Ethnic studies; Population & demography; Social history; Trade unions; Sociology; Labor & Industrial Relations - General; Hispanic Americans In The U.S.; Labor Unions; Social Science; Reference; USA; General; Social Science / Sociology / General; United States; Ethnic Studies - General; Emigration and immigration law; Employment; Hispanic Americans; Minority labor union members
First sentence: The period following the Civil War was an era of rapid economic development for the United States; in the popular view it was a Gilded Age, the era of the Robber Barons, the "American Dream," "Rags to Riches" and Horatio Alger.