From South Texas to the Nation(1st Edition) The Exploitation of Mexican Labor in the Twentieth Century (The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History) by JohnWeber Hardcover, 336 Pages, Published 2015 by The University Of North Carolina Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-2523-2, ISBN: 1-4696-2523-7
"In the early years of the twentieth century, newcomer farmers and migrant Mexicans forged a new world in South Texas. In just a decade, this vast region, previously considered too isolated and desolate for large-scale agriculture, became one of the United States' most lucrative farming regions and one of its worst places to work. By encouraging mass migration from Mexico, paying low wages, selectively enforcing immigration restrictions, ..."
"See also Pastrano, “Industrial Agriculture in the Peripheral South”; and Garcia,
Rise of the Mexican American Middle Class. 12. Hahamovitch, No Man's Land;
Hahamovitch, Fruits of Their Labor; Ngai, Impossible Subjects; and Peck,
Reinventing Free Labor. See also Higbie, Indispensable Outcasts. 13. This
definition is based on my understanding of the region as a native of San Antonio
as well as on the work of cultural geographer Danie ..."