"Professor Zaragosa Vargas has penned an extraordinary book. "Labor
Rights Are Civil Rights" not only demonstrates the long-standing
integration of workers' rights and civil rights but also provides a
provocative, comprehensive sweep of Mexican-American labor history.
I highly recommend it."--Vicki L. Ruiz, author of "From Out of the
Shadows: Mexican Women in 20th Century America"
"Zaragosa Vargas has provided us with an insightful and
revealing study of the crucial role of Mexican and Mexican American
workers in struggles for union rights and civil rights in
Southwestern agriculture and industry during the 1930s and 1940s.
Drawing on his extensive original research he has effectively
situated those struggles in the context of both national and
international political changes, producing a book that should be
required reading for anyone interested in the history of these
decades."--David Montgomery, author of "Citizen Worker: The
Experience of Workers in the United States with Democracy and the
Free Market during the Nineteenth Century"
""Labor Rights Are Civil Rights" is a brilliant and much-needed
contribution. Vargas not only compels us to re-think 20th century
American working-class and civil rights history, but he tells a
powerful transnational story, reminding us that so-called U.S.
history doesn't stop at the Rio Grande."--Robin D. G. Kelley,
author of "Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination"
Zaragosa Vargas stunningly chronicles the vast oppression and
previously hidden history of Mexican American workers, especially
women. His hard-hitting, comprehensive narrative shows how their
battles for labor rights, like those of African American workers,
simultaneouslybecame struggles for freedom. This is a major work
exposing the radical and working-class roots of the civil rights
movements of the twentieth century."--Michael Honey, author of
"Black Workers Remember, An Oral History, and Southern Labor and
Black Civil Rights,"
"Impressively grounded in primary sources and bolstered by a
sharp analysis of the best of the secondary literature, the book is
simultaneously a powerful piece of synthesis and a strong and
original new interpretation."--David Gutierrez, University of
California, San Diego
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