Mexican Labor and World War II - Braceros in the Pacific Northwest, 1942-1947

Mexican Labor and World War II - Braceros in the Pacific Northwest, 1942-1947

von: Erasmo Gamboa, Kevin Leonard

University of Washington Press, 2015

ISBN: 9780295998398

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Mexican Labor and World War II - Braceros in the Pacific Northwest, 1942-1947


 

Although Mexican migrant workers have toiled in the fields of the Pacific Northwest since the turn of the century, and although they comprise the largest work force in the regions agriculture today, they have been virtually invisible in the regions written labor history. Erasmo Gamboas study of the bracero program during World War II is an important beginning, describing and documenting the labor history of Mexican and Chicano workers in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho and contributing to our knowledge of farm labor.Oregon Historical Quarterly