Texas A&M University Press Texas Labor History: 119 (Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas a&M University)

Review "I am not aware of any comparable volume of essays on Texas labor history; thus this volume would be unique."--Alwyn Barr, Professor Emeritus of History, Texas Tech University-- (07/11/2012)"Texas history has an acute need for this significant contribution on the lives of working people. These essays move us toward a more accurate picture by including the poor majority. It is high time Texas had a concentrated dose of labor history showing how very much like the rest of the country life here has been for the working class. Teachers who assign this collection on the actual Texas majority will be doing their students a great service."--Kyle G. Wilkison, author, Yeomen, Sharecroppers, and Socialists: Plain Folk Protest in Texas, 1870-1914-- (06/05/2012)" . . . a well edited anthology of authoritative original historical essays by a wide variety of remarkable national scholars . . . . The collection's greatest strength is that the authors recognize the importance of the multiracial southern labor dynamic in a crucial Sunbelt state that, to a significant degree, holds the key to the nation's future. . . This innovative assortment of investigations points the way for new directions of scholarly inquiry and will benefit historians and students for years to come."--Choice--Choice"This collection demonstrates the changing focus of Texas historians who realize that Texas has a more complex and interesting history as the majority of Texans were not oil tycoons or cattle barons, but the working poor, who through class identity and sense of community sought to maintain what Texans so often boast of - economic independence. This collection should act as a catalyst for a new generation of historians to continue the pioneering efforts demonstrated by these scholarly essays."--Southwestern Historical Quarterly-- (04/11/2014)"These essays move us toward a more accurate picture by including the poor majority. It is high time Texas had a concentrated dose of labor history showing how very much like the rest of the country life here has been for the working class."--Kyle G. Wilkison, author, Yeomen, Sharecroppers, and Socialists Product Description null About the Author BRUCE A. GLASRUD is the retired dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at Sul Ross State University and a professor emeritus of history at California State University, Hayward. His most recent title for Texas A&M University Press is African Americans in South Texas History (2011). JAMES C. MARONEY taught for more than forty years at Lee College in Baytown. He served as writer, editor, and coordinator for articles on labor history for Texas State Historical Association’s New Handbook of Texas. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Texas Labor HistoryBy Bruce A. Glasrud, James C. MaroneyTexas A&M University PressCopyright © 2013 Texas A&M University PressAll rights reserved.ISBN: 978-1-60344-944-1ContentsAcknowledgments, Introduction: The Neglected Heritage of Texas Labor JAMES C. MARONEY AND BRUCE A. GLASRUD, 1. The Early History of Labor Organizations in Texas, 1838–1876 JAMES V. REESE, 2. On Empire's Shore: Free and Unfree Workers in Galveston, Texas, 1840–1860 ROBERT S. SHELTON, 3. The Cowboy Strike of 1883: Its Causes and Meaning ROBERT E. ZEIGLER, 4. The Radical Potential of the Knights' Biracialism: The 1885–1886 Gould System Strikes and Their Aftermath THERESA A. CASE, 5. "Underground Patriots": Thurber Coal Miners and the Struggle for Individual Freedom, 1888–1903 MARILYN D. RHINEHART, 6. The Gospel of Wealth Goes South: John Henry Kirby and Labor's Struggle for Self-Determination, 1901–1916 GEORGE T. MORGAN JR., 7. Tenant Farmer Discontent and Socialist Protest in Texas, 1901–1917 JAMES R. GREEN, 8. The Texas-Louisiana Oil Field Strike of 1917 JAMES C. MARONEY, 9. Opening the Closed Shop: The Galveston Longshoremen's Strike of 1920–1921 JOSEPH ABEL, 10. Tejana Radical: Emma Tenayuca and the San Antonio Labor Move