BRACERO PROGRAM A Short Bibliography Compiled by Jose Alamillo (Updated 12/10/16)
Recently Published Books
Ronald Mize, The Invisible Workers of the US-Mexico Bracero Program: Obreros Olvidados (Lexington Books, 2016)
Mireya Loza, Defiant Braceros: How Migrant Workers Fought for Racial, Sexual and Political Freedom ( University of North Carolina Press, 2016)
Ana Elizabeth Rosas, Abrazando el Espiritu: Bracero Families Confront the US-Mexico Border (University of California Press, 2014)
Gilbert Gonzalez. Guest Workers or Colonized Labor?: Mexican Labor Migration to the United States, (Paradigm Publishers, Second Edition, 2013)
Don Mitchell. They Saved the Crops: Labor, Landscape, and the Struggle over Industrial Farming in Bracero-Era California, (University of Georgia Press, 2012)
Deborah, Cohen. Braceros: Migrant Citizens and Transnational Subjects in the Postwar United States and Mexico (University of North Carolina Press, 2010)
Paul Lopez, editor. Que Fronteras?: Mexican Braceros and a Re-examination of the Legacy of Migration (Kendall Hunt Publishing, 2010).
Classic Books
Ernesto Galarza, Merchants of Labor: The Mexican Bracero Story An account of the Managed Migration of Mexican Farm Workers in California 1942-1960 (Charlotte, Cal., McNally and Loftin, 1964)
Kitty Calavita, Inside the State: The Bracero Program, immigration, and the I.N.S. New York: Routledge, 1992)
Erasmo Gamboa, Mexican Labor and World War II: Braceros in the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2000)
Barbara A. Driscoll, The Tracks North : The Railroad Bracero Program of World War II (Austin, TX: CMAS Books, Center for Mexican American Studies, University of Texas at Austin, 1999)
Jacobo, Jose Rodolfo. Los Braceros: Memories of Bracero Workers 1942-1964. San Diego, CA : Southern Border Press, 2004.
Recently Published Articles and Book Chapters
Matt Garcia, Ambassadors with Overalls: Mexican guest workers and the future of labor"
BOOM: a Journal of California, v. 1, n.4 (Winter 2011):31-44.



Joon Kim, "The Political Economy of the Mexican Farm Labor Program, 1942-64" Aztlan: Journal of Chicano Studies, v. 29, n. 2 (Fall 2004): 13-53.
Michael Snodgrass, "The Bracero Program, 1942-1964" in Beyond La Frontera: The History of Mexico-U.S. Migration, edited by Mark Overmyer-Velazquez (Oxford University Press, 2011): 79­102
Manuel Garcia y Griego, "The Importation of Mexican Contract Laborers to the United States, 1942-1964" in The Border that Joins: Mexican Migrants and the U.S. Responsibility, eds. Peter Brown and Henry Shue (Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield, 1983).
N. Ray Gilmore and Gladys W. Gilmore, "The Bracero in California" Pacific Historical Review, v. 32. n,3 (1963): 265-282.
Ronald Mize, "Workplace Identities and collective memory: Living and remembering the effects of the Bracero total institution" in Immigrant Life in the U.S.: Multi-Displinary Perspectives, eds. by Donna R. Gabaccia snf Colin Wayne Leach. (New York: Routledge, 2003)
Gamboa, Erasmo. "MEXICAN MIGRATION INTO WASHINGTON STATE: A HISTORY, 1940- 1950."Pacific Northwest Quarterly 1981 72(3): 121-131.
Garcia, Alephonso. "BEET SEASONS IN WYOMING: MEXICAN-AMERICAN FAMILY LIFE ON A SUGAR BEET FARM NEAR WHEATLAND DURING WORLD WAR II."
Annals of Wyoming 2001 73(2): 14-17.
Cohen, Deborah. "CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE: THE MEXICAN STATE'S RELATIONSHIP WITH THE UNITED STATES AND ITS OWN CITIZEN-WORKERS, 1942-1954."
Journal of American Ethnic History 2001 20(3): 110-132.
Cohen, Deborah. "From Peasant to Worker: Migration, Masculinity, and the Making of Mexican Workers in the US," International Labor and Working Class History, v. 63, n.1 (March 2006)
McGarvie, Mark. "A COMPARATIVE CASE STUDY OF IMMIGRANT CONTRACT LABOR ON THE MILWAUKEE ROAD." Railroad History 1998 (179): 69-87.
Zatz, Marjorie S. "USING AND ABUSING MEXICAN FARMWORKERS: THE BRACERO PROGRAM AND THE INS." Law & Society Review 1993 27(4): 851-863.
Grove, Wayne A. "THE MEXICAN FARM LABOR PROGRAM, 1942-1964: GOVERNMENT- ADMINISTERED LABOR MARKET INSURANCE FOR FARMERS." Agricultural History 1996 70(2): 302-320.
Driscoll, Barbara A.; Salgado Andrade, Eva, transl. "EL PROGRAMA DE BRACEROS: UNA PODEROSA ESTRATEGIA BILATERAL DE MIGRACION?" Secuencia [Mexico] 1988 (12): 133-150.
Gamboa, Erasmo. "BRACEROS IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST: LABORERS ON THE DOMESTIC FRONT, 1942-1947."Pacific Historical Review 1987 56(3): 378-398.



Gamio, Manuel; Galarza, Ernesto; and Castaneda, Carlos E. "TRES ESTUDIOS ESPECIALIZADOS ACERCA DE LOS BRACEROS." Boletin del Archivo General de la Nacion [Mexico] 1980 4(4): 38-52.
Hernandez Rodriguez, Rogelio. "EL PROBLEMA DE LOS BRACEROS EN EL PERIODO DE 1942 A 1946." Boletin del Archivo General de la Nacion [Mexico] 1980 4(4): 3-4.
Jones, Lamar B. and Rice, G. Randolph. "AGRICULTURAL LABOR IN THE SOUTHWEST: THE POST BRACERO YEARS." Social Science Quarterly 1980 61(1): 86-94.
Levenstein, Harvey. "SINDICALISMO NORTEAMERICANO, BRACEROS Y "ESPALDAS MOJADAS." Historia Mexicana [Mexico] 1978 28(2): 153-184.
Jones, Lamar B. "FARM LABOR: SHORTAGE OR SURPLUS?"
Southwestern Social Science Quarterly 1967 47(4): 401-412.
Government Publications
U.S. Congress, House, Committee on Agriculture, Farm Labor and Mexican Labor. Hearings before Subcommittee on H.R. 7028 and others, 850th Cong., 2nd. Sess., on Problems in the Southwest and Mexican Labor (1958)
Schmidt, Fred H. "After the bracero; an Inquiry into the Problem of Farm Labor Recruitment." With the research assistance of Patricia McFeely. A report submitted to the Dept. of Employment of the State of California by the Institute of Industrial Relations, University of California, Los Angeles. Los Angeles: University of California, 1964.
Unpublished Manuscripts
Zamudio-Gurrola, Susan. "Housing Farm Workers: Assessing the Significance of the Bracero Labor Camps in Ventura County." (M.A. Thesis, School of Architecture, University of Southern California, 2009)
Roger L. Jungmeyer, "The Bracero program, 1942-1951: Mexican contract labor in the United States" (Ph.D. Diss. University of Missouri-Columbus, 1988)
Ronald Wise, "Bracero labor and the California farm labor economy: a micro study of three crops, 1952 through 1967," (Ph.D. dissertation, Claremont College, 1971)
Manuel Garcia y Griego, "The bracero policy experiment : U.S.-Mexican responses to Mexican labor migration, 1942-1955," (Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles, 1988)
David Richard Lessard, "Agrarianism and nationalism: Mexico and the Bracero Program, 1942-1947," (Ph.D. dissertation, Tulane University, 1984)



George C. Kiser, "The bracero program : a case study of its development, termination, and political aftermath," (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Massachusetts, 1973)
Sister De Prague Reilly, "The role of the churches in the bracero program in California," (M.A. thesis, University of Southern California, 1969)
Grace L. Wiest, "Health insurance for the bracero [microform] : a study of its development and implementation under Public Law 78" (Ph.D. dissertation, Claremont Graduate School, 1966).
Henry P. Anderson, "The bracero program in California, with particular reference to health status, attitudes, and practices" (Berkeley, CA : School of Public Health, University of California, 1961)
Lisbeth Haas, "The bracero in Orange County : a work force for economic transition," La Jolla, Calif. : Program in United States-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego, 1981.
Herbert Peterson, "A Twentieth Century Journey to Cibola: Tragedy of the Bracero in Maricopa County, Arizona, 1917-1921" (M.A. thesis, Arizona State University, 1975)
Daniel Martinez, "The impact of the bracero programs on a Southern California Mexican-American community: a field study of Cucamonga, California," (M.A. Thesis, Claremont College, 1958)
Margaret Breed MacKaye, "A Historical Study of the Development of the Bracero Program with special emphasis on the Coachella and Imperial Valleys" (M.A. thesis, College of the Pacific, 1958).
Websites
Bracero History Archive http://braceroarchive.org/
Braceros in Oregon Photograph Collection
Documentaries:
Harvest of Loneliness: The Bracero Program directed by Gilbert Gonzalez and Vivian Price




