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12 Cards in this Set
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Open door to Meixcan immigration
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1917-1921, wanted mexi labor for agriculture (80 k Mexicans imported)
reversed by great depression |
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background to 30s labor policy
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after stock mkt crash in '29 lead to the longes depression.
btwn 70-30% unemployment In LA 33% unemployment was at a peak of 41%. went from 35c/hr in '28 to 14 c/hr in 33 Dusto bowl migration (350k from OK) to CA, put pressure on mexicans, and replaced their jobs |
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federal migrant camps
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built in response to the expose of the dust bowl
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the great depression social welfare programs
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mexicans marginalized from these programs, and recieived less relief then whites
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Jobs for Americans only.
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in 31 it became illegal to employ aliens, but in general all Mexicans had a hard time getting jobs
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Herbert Hoover Programs
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repatriation and deportation
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deportation stat of mexicans, 1930-39
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mexicans made up 46.3% of ppl being deported, but made up less than 1% of total population
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immigration raids
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publicized events so ppl would leave b4 they were reaided, induce ppl to leave, make train tickets to mexico cheaper
17k deported in 1 year. btwn 500k and 1 mil sent back to mexico |
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National Recovery act 1933 NIRA
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for the first time, it validated workers' right to unionize. in unionization, they now had the right to collectively bargain (organize into a body and choose a rep)
agricultural workers weren't included, but they would do it anyway |
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Wagner Act, 1935
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NLRA national labor relations act
created a gov't entity aboard that would mediate complaints btwn workers and the company, agricultural wokers not included by '41, union membership doubled |
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AFL
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american federation of labors,
- craft union, most skilled of a craft, mostly upper white racially exclusive, class exclusive big resistance to non-whte worker,s thought they were gonna take jobs had to be american citizen |
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CIO
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congress of industrial workers, organize in one industry (railroad industry) less racially exclusive
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