The Bracero Program: Interest Groups and Foreign Policy

by Richard Craig

Long before "Cesar Chvez" and "Chicano" became commonly known, the word "bracero" had established itself in the language of American politics. The Mexican Farm Labor Program--or bracero program as it came to be known--was from its inception in 1942 a highly controversial issue. At international, national, and subnational levels, it remained the focal point of an intense interest-group struggle. This struggle and its group combatants provide the central...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292701454
• ISBN13: 9780292701458
• Release Date: January 1971
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.