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Oral Histories: Abstracts: Tenayuca Interview: Tenayuca Books Books While books about the labor movement in the United Stated are numerous, information relating to the labor movement, Mexican workers, and the pecan shellers' strike in San Antonio is much more limited. *Menefee, Selden C., and Orin C. Cassmore. The Pecan Shellers of San Antonio: The Problem of Underpaid and Unemployed Mexican Labor* . Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1940. Data and analysis collected in 512 interviews by the Work Projects Administration in 1939 are presented in response to a request for an emergency allocation of funds to assist special groups of needy unemployed laborers as a result of the pecan shellers' strike in San Antonio. Zamora, Emilio. The World of the Mexican Worker in Texas. College Station: A&M University Press, 1993.** Not for the "light" reader, this book addresses the history of Mexican labor in Texas between 1900 and 1960. Chapter topics include: Discrimination and Inequality; Race and Work on the Farms and in the Cities; Mobilizing the Mexican Response; Voluntary Organizations and the Ethic of Mutuality; Unionism on the Border; and more. The author is considered a Mexican labor historian. Freeman, Joshua, et al. of the American Social History Project. Who Built America? Working People and the Nation's Economy, Politics, Culture and Society: From the Gilded Age to the Present. New York: Pantheon Books, 1992. This amazing textbook is a powerful social and labor history that offers an alternative view of economic struggles of the twentieth century. It is loaded with tidbits of ethnic history that have been sorely missing from most education to date.
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