Comparative Review

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Mexican Labor and World War II is a contextual analysis of Mexican contracted work in
the Pacific Northwest, composed by Erasmo Gamboa and focuses on the war years and spots the
significance of farm work program into a more extensive national setting. Gamboa depicts how
Mexican workers were abused and oppressed in the form of pathetic living and working
conditions, partiality, and poor wages
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. Simultaneously, Mario Jimenez Sifuentez's Mexican
Labor in the Pacific Northwest recounts the narrative of Mexican laborers, who worked in the
fields, canneries, pressing sheds, and forests, thus converting the Pacific Northwest into a
standout amongst the most beneficial agrarian region area within the region. This paper
compares how Gamboa and Sifuentez investigated the historical backdrop of Mexican workers in
the Pacific Northwest.
In Mexican Labor in the Pacific Northwest, Mario Jimenez Sifuentez incorporates the
U.S. labor, ecological, and the history of Chicana/o to recount the Mexican workers’ narrative in
Oregon and Washington. Starting from the underlying relocation of Mexican visitor laborers in
1942 toward the Northwest and finishing by arrangement and achievement of territorial
associations upholding for the rights of laborers in the 1990s, Sifuentez features how Mexican
labor changed the Pacific Northwest to stand out amongst the most beneficial horticultural
districts in the nation after the Second World War
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Cordia, Madelina. The Fruits of Their Labor: The Bracero Program in Southern Oregon, 1942-
1964. The University of Nebraska at Kearney, 2017.
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Cordia, Madelina. The Fruits of Their Labor: The Bracero Program in Southern Oregon, 1942-
1964. The University of Nebraska at Kearney, 2017.
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On the other hand, Gamboa investigates how probing and insightful the manners by
which Braceros turned into a dynamic agent of the lives of Mexicans in his book, Mexican labor
and World War II. His portrayals of living and working conditions in migrant farm camps are
comprehensive and uncover a profound sensitivity for the men who traveled from far regions
with the hopes of finding some employment. The Bracero Program was a progression of laws
and strategic assertions, introduced on August 4, 1942, and signed by both the United States and
Mexico in the Mexican Farm Labor Agreement.
According to The Bracero Program in Southern Oregon, 1942-1964 by Cordia (2017), the
Bracero Program was operated by the State Department, Labor Department, as well as the
Immigration and Naturalization Services in the Justice Department. The agreement guaranteed
the workers better than average living standards in labor camps, for example, satisfactory shelter,
nourishment and sanitation, and an average wage of thirty cents per hour. In addition, it was
agreed that braceros would not be segregated, for example, prohibition from "white" territories.
Braceros were expected to promote adequate labor in agribusiness
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. The program kept going for
22 years and contracted five million braceros in twenty-four states of the U.S., turning into the
biggest foreign laborer program in the history of the U.S. From 1942 to 1947 however, few
braceros were approved, representing below 10 percent of procured laborers in the U.S.
Nonetheless, both U.S and the managers from Mexico turned out to be intensely reliant on
braceros for laborers who were willing to work; bribery became a typical method of getting an
agreement done amid this period. Thus, many years of the temporary agreement resulted in an
expansion in undocumented immigrants.
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Sifuentez, Mario Jimenez. Of Forests and Fields: Mexican Labor in the Pacific Northwest.
Rutgers University Press, 2016.
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As Gamboa describes, braceros encountered the difficulties of separation and abuse by
finding different manners to oppose and endeavor in enhancing their standards of living and
salary in the work camps of the Pacific Northwest so many strikes broke out when the program
became to the law during its initial two years of operation
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. One technique the braceros used to
increase their salaries was when they stacked their gather packs with stones so as to add weight
to their harvest and along these lines earn more salary. Additionally, they discovered that
planning was important. Slowdowns could be more effective when joined with work stoppages,
chilly climate, and a pressing season of harvesting.
The eminent strikes all through the Northwest demonstrated that businesses would
preferably consult with braceros rather than expelling them, employers had a brief period to
waste as they would have harvested their products and the trouble and cost of the program
constrained them to consult with braceros for better standards of living and reasonable salaries.
Braceros were likewise separated and isolated in their camps of work
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. A few growers were
forced to build three work camps for whites, blacks, and the Mexicans. The standards of living
were awful and very unsanitary. In 1943 Grants Pass, Oregon, five-hundred braceros died out of
food poisoning, which was a very severe case amongst the most extreme instances of food
poisoning recorded in the Northwest. The absence of proper nourishment, poor living standards,
segregation, and misuse drove braceros to end up in dynamic strikes and to effectively arrange
their terms.
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Sifuentez, Mario Jimenez. Of Forests and Fields: Mexican Labor in the Pacific Northwest.
Rutgers University Press, 2016.
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Sifuentez, Mario Jimenez. Of Forests and Fields: Mexican Labor in the Pacific Northwest.
Rutgers University Press, 2016.
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On the other hand, Dr. Sifuentez's study is a profoundly individual history of labor
resistance in Mexico, which he follows starting with Braceros in 1940s to the Tejanos in the after
war time frame, to today’s greater extent of undocumented workforce
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. All through, Dr.
Sifuentez talks about the uniqueness of the ethnic Mexican involvement in the Pacific Northwest,
withdrawing in various ways from the setup story focused in the Southwest. His book likewise
gives a usable history of the arrangement and achievement of dynamic associations that
consolidate grassroots community-centered engagement with work activism to serve the
requirements of powerless laborers, kin, as well as groups.
In summary, the real distinction in the historical backdrop of Mexican work as plotted by
Gamboa and Sifuentez is that, the previous author significantly traces how Mexican migrants in
the Braceros program experienced more oppressive wage frameworks, working conditions that
genuinely dehumanized them, solid racial hostility, and little acknowledgment for their part in
keeping Northwest agribusiness above water during World War II. These braceros, the most
activist of every single such worker, battled back with strikes. However, Sifuentez concentrates
more on how the exceptional function of Mexican foreign laborers, Tejano migrants, and
undocumented outsiders changed numerous verdant forests and fields in Pacific Northwest into
the farming powerhouse it is today. Sifuentez has made ready for researchers to more promptly
draw in with the manners by which Mexican and Mexican-American work fits into a bigger
ecological history of the United States. In any case, both authors portray how the Mexican
workers endured operating in the farms of the historic Pacific Northwest.
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Sifuentez, Mario Jimenez. Of Forests and Fields: Mexican Labor in the Pacific Northwest.
Rutgers University Press, 2016.
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Work Cited
Cordia, Madelina. The Fruits of Their Labor: The Bracero Program in Southern Oregon, 1942-
1964. The University of Nebraska at Kearney, 2017.
Sifuentez, Mario Jimenez. Of Forests and Fields: Mexican Labor in the Pacific Northwest.
Rutgers University Press, 2016.

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