Book
The Mexican-American workers of San Antonio, Texas
University Microfilms • Ann Arbor, Michigan • Published In 1986 • Pages:
By: Landolt, Robert Garland.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This dissertation was written with three basic objectives in mind: (1) to determine the nature and extent of the Mexican-American labor force in San Antonio, Texas; (2) to examine possible causes of ethnic imbalance in employment and income within the area of study; and (3) to evaluate various programs designed to speed up the assimilation of the economically disadvantaged (pp. 1-2). The field research for this study was undertaken in San Antonio during the summers of 1962, 1963 and 1964, and supplemented freely with library sources for historical and cultural background. Some comparable data are also presented on Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, Corpus Christi, and El Paso. Additional information deals with various types of industry and manufacturing in the City in which the Mexican-Americans participate as a labor force, education and training, and housing and health relevant to this ethnic group. Frequent references are made in the text to Anglo-Mexican-American relations, particularly in terms of discrimination in labor.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Labor supply and employment
- Labor relations
- Education system
- Wages and salaries
- Income and demand
- Housing
- Ethnic stratification
- Occupational specialization
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Chicanos
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2002
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Economist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1987
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1962-1964
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1900 - 1960s
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- San Antonio, Texas, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Robert Garland Landolt
- Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Texas at Austin, 1965
- UM66-1936
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 367-375)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mexican Americans