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Labor Organizing

Borderlands Sources

Handbook of Texas Online

Library Catalogs

• Good sources:  Labor rights are civil rights : Mexican American workers in twentieth century America (Zaragosa Vargas).   Transmountain: HD8081.M6 V36 2005
• Latinas in the United States: A Historical Encyclopedia Great Depression and Mexican American Women -- Associacio de Trabajadores Domesticas (Domestic Workers' Association)
• Women on the U.S. Mexico Border on reserve, and also at Rio Grande, Transmountain and Valle Verde at F790.M5W66 1987.  At UTEP and the Public Library as well.  Includes chapters on Mexicana domestic worker in El Paso, solidarity in Juarez maquiladora workers.
• El Paso City and County Labor Advocate, October 31, 1919+ Microfilm at UT Austin and other libraries -- for more in-depth research
   
• 1919 El Paso Tejanas Laundress strike
  • Las Tejanas : 300 years of history TM/RG: F395.M5 A75 2003  p.132-140
• Latinas in the United States: A Historical Encyclopedia at UTEP Ref E184.S75 L35 2006
• Strikes by Tejana Workers in Labor Rights are Civil Rights at  HD8081.M6 V36 2005  (Transmountain) 
   
• 1970s Farah Strike
• Latinas in the United States: A Historical Encyclopedia "Farah Strike"
• A needle a bobbin a strike:  Women Needleworkers in America.  on reserve -- Chapter 8 on the Farah Strike

Password (Journal of EP Historical Society) and its Archives

Google Books

EPPL: Border Heritage Center

• Call and ask the staff before you go down (915-543-5440), if there is an entry in their vertical file.  This is a collection of photocopied articles on a person or topic.
   
• In addition, check the newspaper card catalog to see other articles available.  you NEED to know the dates the events took place if you want to scan newspaper coverage for a particular time.  . You would then have to search for the article in the microfilms, ask at the reference desk around the corner from the readers for help.

UTEP Library's Special Collections Department

UTEP's Institute of Oral History

• Use the topic: Border -- Strikes, Unions  many, MANY interviews on this topic.  Scroll down in the list of B's to find this entry.   Farah strikers are at #101
• some of these are probably duplicated in this set: U.S.-Mexico Border Labor History collection (95 interviews with workers on both sides)

Local and National Newspapers

• Mexican Domestics Problem in El Paso  NY Times article Aug 30, 1953

Library of Congress Memory Project

 

 

 

page compiled by Rachel Murphree
Last updated 09/18/2008

Borderlands is published annually by El Paso Community College, P.O. Box 20500, El Paso, TX 79998.

It is a collection of student written articles on the history and culture of the El Paso, Juárez, Las Cruces border region, comprising the states of Texas, New Mexico, and the Mexican state of Chihuahua.   This site was created with seed money from the Integrating Technical Contexts into Academic Courses (ITAC) Project, and maintained by the Northwest Community Library staff.  Funds for the program were provided by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board under the auspices of the federal Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Technical Education Act of 1998.  

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