The Invisible Workers of the U.S.–Mexico Bracero Program

Obreros Olvidados

Ronald L. Mize

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Year: 2016
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9798216232421
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Hispanic American Studies
• Index: Social Sciences

As the first and largest guestworker program, the U.S.–Mexico Bracero Program (1942–1964) codified the unequal relations of labor migration between the two nations. This book interrogates the articulations of race and class in the making of the Bracero Program by introducing new syntheses of sociological theories and methods to center the experiences and recollections of former Braceros and their families.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• 1 The Invisible Workers of the U.S.–Mexican Bracero Program
• 2 Braceros and the Social Formation of Anglo Racial Frames
• 3 The Bracero Working Day and the Contested Terrain of Class Relations
• 4 The Making of the Bracero Total Institution
• 5 Conclusion
• Appendix I: The Articulation of Race and Class in the Making of the Bracero Total Institution
• Appendix II: Working in the Field
• Appendix III: The Standard Work Contract
• Appendix IV: Original Bracero Agreement of 1942
• Appendix V: Braceros from Mexican State of Origin, 1942–1946 and 1951–1964
• Bibliography
• Index
• About the Author