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bracero

[ US /bɹɑˈtʃɛɹoʊ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a Mexican laborer who worked in the United States on farms and railroads in order to ease labor shortages during World War II

How To Use bracero In A Sentence

  • Since 1942, long before the first rows arrived, braceros from Mexico had done much of the labor for Idaho, Oregon, and Washington agriculture and would continue to do so until 1947.
  • The neighborhood continued to serve as a port of entry for many incoming Mexican immigrants, braceros, Mexican American migrants, and Puerto Rican labor migrants.
  • She looks with respect on the program's effort to set standards for wages, housing, and guarantees of employment for the braceros.
  • He fought tooth and nail for the bracero system as no Republican governor of an agricultural state dared to do.
  • Activists such as Ernesto Galarza and Cesar Chavez documented extensive abuses of workers under the bracero program, in place from 1942 to 1964.
  • A decade into the Bracero Program, undocumented outnumbered legal braceros three to one.
  • He discusses how fluctuations in the U.S. economy correlate with the bracero programs and ‘Operation Wetback’ of the 1950s.
  • Here convention delegates unanimously rejected the idea of a bracero program in their industry.
  • A remedy was found in an agreement with the Mexican government in 1942, which brought in some 200,000 Mexican workers - called braceros - on temporary work visas.
  • The bracero program contracted Mexican agricultural labor to US growers.
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