Mexican Emigration to the United States 1897-1931: Socio-Economic Patterns
| dc.contributor.author | Cardoso, Lawrence A. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-05-16T20:50:43Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-05-16T20:50:43Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1980 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10150/632295 | |
| dc.description | Rapid change in the land and labor system in rural Mexico during the 1890s destroyed the ancestral homes of the peasantry, forcing them either onto privately owned haciendas or into the migratory labor stream. The anarchy, inflation, and fear for personal safety that resulted from the Mexican Revolution of the 1910 provided a further impetus to migratory patterns that otherwise might not have emerged, considering the people's strong ties to their ancestral land. During the same era, capitalist modernization in the United States was creating a strong demand for low-paid, unskilled labor, especially for agricultural and railroad work. Mexico's newly created class of migrant workers rushed across the border to fill this demand, setting in motion a social, economic, and political phenomenon that Lawrence Cardoso analyzed here in detail. What set this study apart, however, is the author's focus on the ' Human element," as revealed through the Mexican workers' hopes, fears, and reactions to events of their time. | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, as part of the Humanities Open Book Program funded jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. | en_US |
| dc.description.tableofcontents | Preface – Acknowledgments -- 1. Porfirian Mexico: The Background of Massive Emigration -- 2. Emigration, 1897 to 1910: The Establishment of Patterns -- 3. Revolution and War, 1910 to 1921 -- 4. Labor Emigration to the Southwest, 1910 to 1920: Mexican Attitudes -- 5. Floodtide of the 1920s -- 6. Mexican Policies and Attitudes in the 1920s: New Urgency -- 7. American Policy and Attitudes, 1918 to 1930 -- 8. The Great Depression: Emigration Halts and Repatriation Begins -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliographic Essay -- Index -- Maps -- Mexico, 1931 -- Mexican Railroads in 1880 -- Mexican Railroads by 1910 with Connections to United States Lines -- United States Railroad Pattern by 1900 -- Tables -- 1.1 Landholding in 1910 -- 1.2 Mexican Population, 1793-1910 -- 1.3 Daily Agricultural Wages and Wholesale Food Prices in the Central Plateau of Mexico -- 1.4 Emigrants From Native States, 1900-10 -- 2.1 Daily Wages Available to Braceros in the United States, 1910-20 -- 3.1 Legal Mexican Entrants Into the United States, 1910-20 -- 5.1 Daily Wages Paid to Mexican Workers by Enterprises More Than 100 Miles From the Border, 1920-29 -- 5.2 Mexican Immigrants in Selected States as of April 1, 1930 -- 5.3 Legal Mexican Entrants Into the United States, 1920-29. | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | University of Arizona Press (Tucson, AZ) | en_US |
| dc.relation.url | https://open.uapress.arizona.edu | en_US |
| dc.rights | Copyright © 1980 by The Arizona Board of Regents. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. | en_US |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | |
| dc.source | University of Arizona Press | en_US |
| dc.subject | United States—Emigration and immigration—History. | en_US |
| dc.subject | Mexico—Emigration and immigration—History. | en_US |
| dc.subject | Mexicans in the United States—History. | en_US |
| dc.title | Mexican Emigration to the United States 1897-1931: Socio-Economic Patterns | en_US |
| dc.type | book | en_US |
| dc.type | text | en_US |
| dc.description.collectioninformation | This title from the Open Arizona collection is made available by the University of Arizona Press and University of Arizona Libraries. If you have questions about this title, please contact the UA Press at https://uapress.arizona.edu/contact. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.eisbn | 978-0-8165-4029-7 | |
| refterms.dateFOA | 2019-05-16T20:50:43Z |
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