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August 26th, 2010
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Author: Mark Wyman offers perspective on the boom-and-bust labor cycle in the West
by Tim Hull
Between 1910 and 1930, some 750,000 Mexicans entered the U.S. labor market, primarily as itinerant harvest workers in the West. Fleeing the Mexican Revolution and grinding poverty, the agricultural West’s latest immigrant labor force would become its last, following a familiar pattern of exploitation.…
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Mark Wyman offers perspective on the boom-and-bust labor cycle in the West
by Tim Hull
Between 1910 and 1930, some 750,000 Mexicans entered the U.S. labor market, primarily as itinerant harvest workers in the West. Fleeing the Mexican Revolution and grinding poverty, the agricultural West’s latest immigrant labor force would become its last, following a familiar pattern of exploitation.…
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