Working women into the borderlands [electronic resource] / Sonia Hernández ; with a foreword by Sterling Evans.
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TextSeries: Connecting the greater west series | UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: College Station : Texas A&M University Press, 2014. 2015)Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resource (pages cm.)ISBN: - 9781623491390
- 1623491398
- Economic development -- Mexican-American Border Region -- 20th century
- Economic development -- Mexico, North -- 20th century
- Mexican American women labor union members -- Mexican-American Border Region -- History -- 20th century
- Women labor union members -- Mexico, North -- History -- 20th century
- Women in the labor movement -- Mexican-American Border Region -- History -- 20th century
- Women in the labor movement -- Mexico, North -- History -- 20th century
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- HD6079.2.M6 H47 2014
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Norteño history as borderlands history -- Selling the Norteño borderlands: capital, land, and labor -- Peasant women's work in a changing countryside during the Porfiriato -- "We cannot suffer any longer from the patrón's bad treatment": everyday forms of peasant negotiation -- (En)Gendering revolution in the borderlands: revolucionarias, combatants, and supporters in the northeast -- Women's labor and activism in the greater Mexican borderlands, 1910-1930 -- Class, gender, and power in the postrevolutionary borderlands -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1. Selected mutual-aid societies and related collective organizations in the Mexican Northeast, 1880-1910 -- Appendix 2. Selected organizations in Texas affiliated with the Partido Liberal Mexicano, 1911-1917 -- Appendix 3. Selected estatutos (by-laws) and artículos of the Unión de Obreras "Fraternidad Femenil" (Xicotencatl, Tamaulipas).
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