A traquero is a railroad track worker, or "section hand", especially a Mexican or Mexican American railroad track worker ("gandy dancer" in American English...
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runner Railway lubricator Section gangs Signal maintainer Track inspector Traquero Platelayer Navvy (navigator) Track foreman Structure Maintainer Lighting...
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railroads to begin importing Mexican railroad workers in greater numbers ("traqueros"). In the 1890s–1920s era, nativists and labor unions campaigned for immigration...
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lands east of the current town site, and in the 1890s, a few hundred traqueros settled along the tracks. In 1901, the citizens of Woodspur voted on a...
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was "white", the rest were Mexicans especially in the eastern ends when traqueros arrived to maintain the area's railroads, and Native Americans of local...
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railroads to begin importing Mexican railroad workers in greater numbers ("traqueros"). In 1943 when China was an ally against Japan, the restrictions were...
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pouring over the border were widespread; however, the need for Mexican traquero labor, farmworkers, and miners meant that enforcement against Mexican laborers...
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Mexico, Mexican and Mexican-American track workers were colloquially traqueros. In the United States, early section crews were often made up of recent...
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Diss.). Northern Illinois University. Garcilazo, Jeffrey Marcos (2012). Traqueros: Mexican Railroad Workers in the United States, 1870 to 1930. University...
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railroads to begin importing Mexican railroad workers in greater numbers ("traqueros"). Attacks on the Japanese in the Western U.S., echoing the dreaded Yellow...
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