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Author : United States. Work Projects Administration,Selden Cowles Menefee,Orin Clark Cassmore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : Agricultural laborers
ISBN : UOM:39015055309432
Author : United States. Work Projects Administration,Selden Cowles Menefee,Orin Clark Cassmore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : Agricultural laborers
ISBN : UIUC:30112018891041
Author : Selden Cowles Menefee,United States Work Projects Administrat,Orin Clark Cassmore
Publisher : Franklin Classics Trade Press
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0353337749
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Selden C. Menefee
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1391985362
Excerpt from The Pecan Shellers of San Antonio: The Problem of Underpaid and Unemployed Mexican Labor Origin of Mexicans Composition of pecan shellers as a group Development of the industry The growing of pecans Background of the shelling industry The contract system Seasonality of employment Economic problems of the industry Shelling costs and wage levels Competition from other species of nuts Recent attempts to stabilize the pecan industry The National Recovery Administration. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Carmen Tafolla,Sharyll Teneyuca
Publisher : Wings Press
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2008-04
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781609400545
A vivid depiction of the early injustices encountered by a young Mexican-American girl in San Antonio in the 1920's, this book tells the true story of Emma Tenayuca. Emma learns to care deeply about poverty and hunger during a time when many Mexican Americans were starving to death and working unreasonably long hours at slave wages in the city's pecan-shelling factories. Through astute perception, caring, and personal action, Emma begins to get involved and eventually, at the age of 21, leads 12,000 workers in the first significant historical action in the Mexican-American struggle for justice. Emma Tenayuca's story serves as a model for young and old alike about courage, compassion, and the role everyone can play in making the world fairer. "Una representacion vivida de las injusticias con las que se encuentra una joven mexicano-americana en San Antonio en las decadas de 1920 y 1930, este libro cuenta la historia verdadera de Emma Tenayuca. Emma aprende a preocuparse por la pobreza y el hambre durante una epoca cuando muchos mexicano-americanos se morian de inanicion y trabajaban horas excesivamente largas por sueldos exiguos en las fabricas de pacana. A traves de percepcion perspicaz, un buen corazon y accion personal, Emma empieza a involucrarse y al final, a los 21 anos, lleva a 12.000 trabajadores a tomar accion por la primera vez en la historia de la lucha mexicano-americana por la justicia. El relato de Emma Tenayuca sirve de modelo para tanto los jovenes como los adultos sobre el valor, la compasion y el papel que puede desempena quienquiera en hacer mas justo el mundo."
Author : Selden Cowles Menefee,EE.UU. Work Projects Administration,États-Unis. Work Projects Administration,Orin Clark Cassmore,John N. Webb,United States. Work Projects Administration
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:604536581
Author : Zaragosa Vargas
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400849284
In 1937, Mexican workers were among the strikers and supporters beaten, arrested, and murdered by Chicago policemen in the now infamous Republic Steel Mill Strike. Using this event as a springboard, Zaragosa Vargas embarks on the first full-scale history of the Mexican-American labor movement in twentieth-century America. Absorbing and meticulously researched, Labor Rights Are Civil Rightspaints a multifaceted portrait of the complexities and contours of the Mexican American struggle for equality from the 1930s to the postwar era. Drawing on extensive archival research, Vargas focuses on the large Mexican American communities in Texas, Colorado, and California. As he explains, the Great Depression heightened the struggles of Spanish speaking blue-collar workers, and employers began to define citizenship to exclude Mexicans from political rights and erect barriers to resistance. Mexican Americans faced hostility and repatriation. The mounting strife resulted in strikes by Mexican fruit and vegetable farmers. This collective action, combined with involvement in the Communist party, led Mexican workers to unionize. Vargas carefully illustrates how union mobilization in agriculture, tobacco, garment, and other industries became an important vehicle for achieving Mexican American labor and civil rights. He details how interracial unionism proved successful in cross-border alliances, in fighting discriminatory hiring practices, in building local unions, in mobilizing against fascism and in fighting brutal racism. No longer willing to accept their inferior status, a rising Mexican American grassroots movement would utilize direct action to achieve equality.
Author : Elizabeth Cochrane Cazell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951001467594N
Author : Mary Ann Irwin,James Brooks
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0826335993
The Joan Jensen-Darlis Miller Prize recognizes outstanding scholarship on gender and women's history in the West. The winning essays are collected here for the first time in one volume.
Author : James McWilliams
Publisher : Univ of TX + ORM
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780292753907
“This excellent and charming story describes a tree that endured numerous hardships to become not only a staple of Southern cuisine but an American treasure.” —Library Journal What would Thanksgiving be without pecan pie? New Orleans without pecan pralines? But as familiar as the pecan is, most people don’t know the fascinating story of how native pecan trees fed Americans for thousands of years until the nut was “improved” a little more than a century ago—and why that rapid domestication actually threatens the pecan’s long-term future. In The Pecan, the acclaimed author of Just Food and A Revolution in Eating explores the history of America’s most important commercial nut. He describes how essential the pecan was for Native Americans—by some calculations, an average pecan harvest had the food value of nearly 150,000 bison. McWilliams explains that, because of its natural edibility, abundance, and ease of harvesting, the pecan was left in its natural state longer than any other commercial fruit or nut crop in America. Yet once the process of “improvement” began, it took less than a century for the pecan to be almost totally domesticated. Today, more than 300 million pounds of pecans are produced every year in the United States—and as much as half of that total might be exported to China, which has fallen in love with America’s native nut. McWilliams also warns that, as ubiquitous as the pecan has become, it is vulnerable to a “perfect storm” of economic threats and ecological disasters that could wipe it out within a generation. This lively history suggests why the pecan deserves to be recognized as a true American heirloom.
Author : Antonia Casta_eda
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2007-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780803233843
"Both noted and new scholars reweave the fabric of collective, family, and individual history with a legacy of agency and activism in the borderlands in these twenty-one original selections. Contributors explore themes of homeland, sexuality, language, violence, colonialism, and political resistance within the most recent frameworks of Chicana/Chicano inquiry. Art as social critique, culture as a human right, labor activism, racial plurality, Indigenous knowledge, and strategies of decolonization all vitalize these selections edited by one of the country's most respected historians of the borderlands, Antonia Castaneda.
Author : Gabriela González
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199914142
The economic modernization of the American Southwest and Mexico transformed the lives of ethnic Mexicans, subjecting them to economic exploitation and racism. Redeeming La Raza analyzes how political activists, using multiple strategies, challenged white supremacy, seeking to instill in ethnic Mexicans a sense of ethnic pride and unity.
Author : John Gifford
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-23
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780700628353
Inspired by the mystique of a uniquely American tree, the pecan, Oklahoma writer John Gifford set out to explore the US pecan industry, which provides 80 percent of the world’s supply of this special tree nut. What he discovered during his two-year immersion was a nut—one that’s suprisingly symbolic of America itself—that’s poised to become the next superfood and an industry that today finds itself in the most important juncture in its history. Though the US pecan belt extends from the Carolinas to California, the pecan tree, which was revered by some of our nation’s founders, has its origins in the South Central United States, where wild pecans still grow along the region’s rivers and streams, and in its floodplain forests. The pecan is the only native tree nut that has been developed into a significant agricultural crop. Though native pecans continue to figure into the 280-million-pound annual US crop, wild pecan trees face an uncertain future as worldwide demand centers on the larger and more lucrative “improved” varieties. Pecan America provides readers with a look at how the rising demand for pecans around the world is transforming the way this nut is grown, promoted, and consumed here in the United States. Along the way, Gifford explores its presence in American folk art and culture, documents the pecan industry’s quest for share of stomach in a market brimming with other tree nuts, examines the pecan’s surprising array of health benefits, and profiles some of the fascinating people who bring this food to our tables. In the end, Gifford reveals the pecan to be much more than a food, but also a cultural curiosity and even a metaphor for America itself, one whose diverse nature may be its greatest quality.
Author : Eileen Boris,Cynthia R. Daniels
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0252060547
Homework clarifies the past and present of home-based labor using case studies which offer a rich portrait of homework. The authors recognize that we must examine the influence of gender, race, and class to fully comprehend the history of homework -- taken from back cover.
Author : Donald W. Whisenhunt
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0842050124
American society in the years from 1920 to 1945 experienced great transformation and upheaval. Significant changes in the role of government, in the nation's world outlook, in the economy, in technology, and in the social order challenged those who lived in this tumultuous period framed by the two world wars.p This transformation lies at the core of this collection of biographical essays. Each individual in his or her own way grappled with the difficulties of the times. Some of those included here were well known in their day and afterwards, but many led lives now obscured by the passage of time. In these essays are men and women, African-Americans, Hispanics, whites, and Native Americans from all regions of the country. Written by leading and rising scholars, these never-before-published pieces provide students with a greater understanding of a period that in many ways represents an important last chapter in the creation of modern America. p Providing a rich portrait through biography of the interwar years, The Human Tradition in America between the Wars is an excellent text for the following courses: Twentieth Century American History to 1945, American history survey, the Depression and the New Deal, and American social and cultural history.p
