| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.3

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Book Review

Labor Rights Are Civil Rights: Mexican American Workers in Twentieth-Century America. By Zaragosa Vargas. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. xviii, 375 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-691-11546-X.)

This is a well-written book by Zaragosa Vargas with an intriguing title, Labor Rights Are Civil Rights, which immediately raises caution since the obvious is always the most difficult to prove. The road that Vargas travels is familiar. He begins with the 1937 Memorial Day strike at Republic Steel; he recounts the experience of Guadalupe Marshall, thirty-one, one of two hundred women working at the plant, before the La Follette Committee. Vargas then jumps to Texas, Colorado, and California, where he re-creates a series of strikes from the Great Depression through World War II. Visually, the publisher has done an excellent job of integrating photos, blending them in with the text instead of lumping them together in the middle of the book. The subtitles give the illusion of movement. The strength of the book, however, is the author's use of archival materials, which include National Archives as well as labor and organizations such as the Communist party and the League of United Latin American Citizens.

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