| Book Review | Western Historical Quarterly 32.2

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Book Review

Mexican Coal Mining Labor in Texas and Coahuila, 1880–1930. By Roberto R. Calderón. (College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 2000. xix + 294 pp. Illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index. $39.95.)

In this detailed study, Roberto Calderón examines the interconnections between big-capital, railroads, mining, and labor along the Texas/Coahuila border. Using mining reports, geological materials, newspapers, and statistical data, Calderón characterizes northern Mexican miners as an identifiable and adaptive segment of labor. From the coal basins of Coahuila to the coal fields of North Texas, the work of these miners dominated this era of "hand loading," contributing significantly to the profit-making ventures of boom-and-bust enterprises. Although coal would eventually lose out to the efficiency of oil, where Mexican miners labored they tended to improve their working conditions. Considering that labor history in the Southwest supposedly occurred in Arizona or New Mexico, Calderón adds hard data to the story of labor relations. . . .

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