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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Zaragosa Vargas. Labor Rights Are Civil Rights: Mexican American Workers in Twentieth-Century America. (Politics and Society in Twentieth-Century America.) Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2004. Pp. xvi, 375. $29.95.

In this comprehensive study of Mexican American labor history from 1930 to 1950, Zaragosa Vargas depicts the steady stream of injustices born by Mexican American workers, the pervasiveness of protest by those workers, and the complex landscape of organized labor. Building on the substantial work of fellow historians and adding to it his own extensive original research, Vargas has for the first time brought into a single frame the multitude of 1930s strikes in which Mexican American women and men played a central role. Doing so also allows him to illuminate the substantial differences among southwestern states, where the track record of Texas proved so abysmal that it was excluded from the World War II contract labor agreement with Mexico.

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