José A Rivera
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Description
(Society for the Mutual Protection of United Workers) was one of hundreds of Hispanic mutual aid societies that flourished in the American Southwest between 1880 and 1930, a period of rural industrialization that coincided with significant changes in the region's political economy and in the competition for the control of natural resources. This book examines La Sociedad as a case study of collective action in a pluralistic American society marked...