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Bookmark or Share- Bracero Program - Farmworker JusticeThe Bracero Program became the largest guest worker program in US history, employing more than four million Mexican workers over its 22-year history. The program was controversial; some argued that the low wages at which migrants were willing to work threatened the jobs of domestic farmworkers.
- Bracero Agreement (1942-1964) - Immigration HistoryBracero Agreement (1942-1964) 1942 - 1964 During World War II, the U.S. government negotiated with the Mexican government to recruit Mexican workers, all men and without their families, to work on short-term contracts on farms and in other war industries.
- The Bracero Program: A Historical Investigation - National Museum of ...The bracero program grew out of a series of bi-lateral agreements between Mexico and the United States that allowed millions of Mexican men to come to the United States to work on, short-term, primarily agricultural labor contracts.
- Bracero Program - WikipediaThe Bracero Program (from the Spanish term bracero [bɾaˈse.ɾo], meaning "manual laborer" or "one who works using his arms") was a U.S. Government-sponsored program that imported Mexican farm and railroad workers into the United States between the years 1942 and 1964.
- Bracero Program | Definition, Significance, & Discrimination - BritannicaBracero Program, series of agreements between the U.S. and Mexican governments to allow temporary laborers from Mexico, known as braceros, to work legally in the United States. The program ran from 1942 to 1964, and during that time more than 4.5 million Mexicans arrived in the United States.
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