Jeffrey Marcos GarcIlazo

Traqueros: Mexican Railroad Workers in the United States, 1870–1930 - Al Filo: Mexican American Studies Series Jeffrey Marcos GarcIlazo

Perhaps no other industrial technology changed the course of Mexican history in the US and Mexico as much as the arrival of the railroads. Tens of thousands of Mexicans worked for the railroads in the US, especially in the Southwest andMidwest. In this study, Jeffrey Marcos Garcílazo provides the first and only comprehensive history of Mexican railroad workers across the United States.