Labor rights are civil rights: Mexican American workers in twentieth-century America

1. We are the salt of the earth : conditions among Mexican workers in the early Great Depression years

The "big swing" : the peregrinations and tribulations of Tejano cotton harvesters

"In the land of bondage" : Colorado's Mexican sugar beet workers

Summer in the country : California's Mexican farm workers

The Great Depression hits the Mexicans of Texas and the Western states

Work, leave, or starve : limiting relief to Mexicans

"Send them back to where they came from" : the repatriation campaign unfolds

Causes and consequences of Mexican repatriation and deportation

2. Gaining strength through the union : Mexican labor upheavals in the era of the NRA

Revolt in the cotton fields : Tejano pickers strike the El Paso cotton district

Radical labor unrest in the Colorado beet fields

In unity there is strength : strikes by Tejana domestic, cigar, and garment workers

Learning the lessons of rank-and-file trade unionism : the Los Angeles garment workers' strike

For the union : Los Angeles furniture workers organize

"Are you a Bolshey?" : the 1933 Gallup, New Mexico, coal strike

The red menace : the National Miners Union enter Gallup

Guns, bayonets, and clubs : martial law descends on Gallup

Revolutionary unionism at work

Class against class : the Gallup coal strike escalates

A Pyrrhic victory : the Gallup coal strike ends

The big payback : the crusade against foreigners and subversives

3. "Do you see the light?" : Mexican American workers and CIO organizing

The labor offensive in South Texas and cross-border organizing

A power to be reckoned with : Emma Tenayuca, La Pasionaria

"She's nothing but a damned communist" : Emma Tenayuca's work in the Unemployed Councils and the Workers' Alliance of America

"The CIO doesn't exist here" : the 1938 pecan shellers' strike

Educating the party : Emma Tenayuca pens "The Mexican question in the Southwest"

"Pushing back the red tide" : the downfall of Emma Tenayuca

Left behind : UCAPAWA and Colorado's Mexican sugar beet workers

Shifting gears : UCAPAWA organizes cannery and food processing workers in California

Collective action : Mexican American CIO unionists organize Los Angeles

5050 4. Advocates of racial democracy : Mexican American workers fight for labor and civil rights in the early World War II years

Inclusive unionism : the case of mine-mill and Mexican American miners and smelter workers

"A society without classes" : mine-mill and CTM undertake an organizing drive in El Paso

Texas showdown : the CIO on trial in El Paso

The push by Mexican American CIO unionists for labor and civil rights continues

Getting a foot in the door : Mexican American CIO unionists enter Los Angeles war defense industries

Allies of labor : the popular front of the congress of Spanish-speaking peoples

Suppressing fascism : Mexican Americans battle the Sinarquistas

Labor, the left, and Sleepy Lagoon

Mexican American unionists press on to end discrimination

5. The lie of "America's greatest generation" : Mexican Americans fight against prejudice, intolerance, and hatred during World War II

Eternal victims of race hatred : the predicament of Tejanos

"Working overtime on the riveting machine" : Mexican American women war workers

Fleeing poverty : the case of the Spanish-speaking of New Mexico

Remaining separate and unequal : Colorado's Mexican Americans

"Stolid and stunned, brother to the ox" : the Mexican copper miners of Arizona

"Dirty, noisy, and lawless" : the further segregation of Mexican Americans in wartime Los Angeles

"It's the American way" : the racial assault against Mexicans in Los Angeles

Getting the union involved against discrimination in Los Angeles

Focusing government efforts on racial inequality

The beginnings of the Mexican Contract Labor Program

No freedom from fear : the federal government, race relations, and Mexican Americans

"They just don't get it" : fighting racism within labor's ranks

6. Labor rights are civil rights : the emergence of the Mexican American civil rights struggle

Expressions of the Mexican American union movement and its repression

Mexican Americans fight for an FEPC bill

"Nothing

we shot a Mexican" : Mexican Americans fight racism

Last hired, first fired : Mexican American job loss after the war

The right-wing backlash against the Mexican American struggle for labor and civil rights

Achieving Mexican American civil rights through the ballot box

Mexican American workers confront braceros and the wetback tide.