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Between the end of World War I and the Great Depression, over 58,000 Mexicans journeyed to the Midwest in search of employment. Many found work in agriculture, but thousands more joined the growing ranks of the industrial proletariat. Throughout the northern Midwest, and especially in Detroit, Mexican workers entered steel mills, packing houses, and auto plants, becoming part of the modern American working class.Zaragosa Vargass work focuses on this little-known feature in the history of Chicanos and American labor. In relating the experiences of Mexicans in workplace and neighborhood, and in showing the roles of Mexican women, the Catholic Church, and labor unions, Vargas enriches our knowledge of immigrant urban life. His is an important work that will be welcomed by historians of Chicano Studies and American labor.

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title Proletarians of the North A History of Mexican Industrial Workers - photo 1

title:Proletarians of the North : A History of Mexican Industrial Workers in Detroit and the Midwest, 1917-1933 Latinos in American Society and Culture ; 1
author:Vargas, Zaragosa.
publisher:University of California Press
isbn10 | asin:0520219627
print isbn13:9780520219625
ebook isbn13:9780585249865
language:English
subjectMexican Americans--Employment--Middle West--History, Mexican Americans--Employment--Michigan--Detroit--History.
publication date:1999
lcc:HD8081.M6V37 1999eb
ddc:331.6/2172075
subject:Mexican Americans--Employment--Middle West--History, Mexican Americans--Employment--Michigan--Detroit--History.
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Proletarians of the North
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LATINOS IN AMERICAN SOCIETY AND CULTURE
Mario T. Garca, Editor
1. Proletarians of the North: A History of Mexican Industrial Workers in Detroit and the Midwest, 19171933,
by Zaragosa Vargas
2. Memories of Chicano History: The Life and Narrative of Bert Corona,
by Mario T. Garca
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Proletarians of the North
A History of Mexican Industrial Workers in Detroit and the Midwest, 19171933
Zaragosa Vargas
Page iv University of California Press Berkeley and Los Angeles California - photo 2
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University of California Press
Berkeley and Los Angeles, California
University of California Press, Ltd.
London, England
1993 by
The Regents of the University of California
First Paperback Printing 1999
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Vargas, Zaragosa.
Proletarians of the North: a history of Mexican industrial
workers in Detroit and the Midwest, 19171933 / Zaragosa Vargas.
p. cm. (Latinos in American Society and Culture : 1)
ISBN 0-520-21962-7 (pbk.: alk. paper)
1. Mexican AmericansEmploymentMiddle WestHistory.
2. Mexican AmericansEmploymentMichiganDetroitHistory.
I. Title. II. Series.
HD8081.M6V37 1993
331.6'2172075dc20 92-9122
CIP
Printed in the United States of America
9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984. Picture 3
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To Zaneta and Apolina
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Contents
List of Maps, Graphs, and Tables
ix
Foreword
by Mario T. Garca
xi
Acknowledgments
xiii
Introduction: Coming to Work in Detroit
1
1. Mexican Migration to the Midwest
13
2. Mexicans in Working-Class Detroit, 19181921
56
3. Mexicans and Factory Work in the 1920s
86
4. Life in the Mexican Colonies of the Midwest
124
5. Detroit Mexicans in the Great Depression
169
Conclusion: Reinterpreting the History of Mexican Industrial Workers
201
Notes
211
Bibliography
261
Index
269
Illustrations Follow Page
130

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Maps Graphs and Tables
Maps
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1. Mexicans in the Urban Centers of the Midwest, 1928.
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2. Mexican Sugar-Beet Workers Wintering Outside Chaska, Minnesota, and Mason City, Iowa, 1927
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3. Mexican Settlements in Detroit, 1920.
65
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4. Mexican Settlements in Detroit, 1925.
126
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5. Mexican Settlements in Detroit, 1929.
127
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