Article: Mexican Coal Mining Labor in Texas and Coahuila, 1880-1930

Mexican Coal Mining Labor in Texas and Coahuila, 1880-1930. By Roberto R. Calderon. Rio Grande/Rio Bravo: Borderlands Culture and Tradition, No. 2. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2000. Pp. [xx], 294. $39.95, ISBN 0-89096-884-5.)

Roberto R. Calderon traces the history of coal mining on both sides of the Texas-Mexico border, where Mexican labor predominated during the era of handloading and before coal lost its place to oil. In separate chapters and in enormous detail he delineates developments regarding geology, ownership, marketing, technology, demography, and unionization at each of several mines in two Texas mining regions (for bituminous and lignite coal) and in ...

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