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Book Review
Mexican Consuls and Labor Organizing: Imperial Politics in the American Southwest. By Gilbert G. González. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1999. xiv, 277 pp. Cloth, $40.00, ISBN 0-292-72823-9. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-292-72824-7.)
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Mexican Consuls and Labor Organizing by Gilbert G. González, one of the foremost Chicano historians, is a balanced and multifaceted history of the role of Mexican consuls in the intervention and control of Mexican labor mobilization in the Southwest. González provides us with an appraisal of the relationship between the consulates and Mexican workers that was created to give expression and legitimacy to the Mexican state during most of the twentieth century. |
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