Howard R. Rosenberg, "Snapshots in a Farm Labor Tradition," Labor Management Decisions, Winter-Spring, 1993 |
The year 2012 marks the 70th anniversary of the start of the
Bracero Program, a guest worker program coordinated between the United States
and Mexican governments. From 1942 to 1964, the Bracero Program offered an
estimated 4.5 million work contracts to almost 2 million Mexican men to offset
labor shortages in the United
States .
These many facets of the bracero experience have been
documented though various efforts. The Smithsonian Institution, in conjunction
with Brown University ,
George Mason
University , and the Institute of Oral History
at the University of Texas at El
Paso , launched the Bracero History Archive. This
collection preserves the testimonies of individuals who participated in the
program and of those affected by the absence of family members working in the United States .
Find out more about
the Bracero Program by reading the complete Feature Story on the Latino American Experience, which includes a collection of oral histories selected from the
Bracero History Archive that offer a close look into the lives of former
braceros and their families. Each oral history, which is presented in the
original Spanish text with added English translations, is enriched by a
corresponding audio interview and supplementary reference materials. If you are
not already a subscriber, click here for a free trial.
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