Handmade Brick for Texas A Mexican Border

Brickmaking was one of the pioneering non-agricultural manufacturing industries in the lower Rio Grande/Rio Bravo corridor, and a precursor of the binational, cross-border maquiladora industry that came to identify the U.S.-Mexico border economy in the aftermath of the Border Industrialization Program [BIP] launched in 1965. Through research beginning in the early 1990s and continuing to the present, Scott Cook has sought to fill-in these blank pages on the binational handmade brick industry and its competitive situation in the Texas market.

Scott Cook is professor emeritus in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Connecticut.

List of Maps	p. ix
List of Tables	p. xi
List of Photographs	p. xiii
Preface	p. xxi
Acknowledgements	p. xxvii
Introduction	p. 1
Foundations and Dimensions of Border Brick Culture	p. 25
The Reynoso Brothers and the Brick Industry in Ejido Los Longoria	p. 43
The Gas Line and the Capitalist Development of the Reynosa Brick Industry	p. 71
Brick Fever, the Periurban Ejidos, and the Field Boss System	p. 87
Class Tensions, Collective Bargaining, and Business Strategies	p. 119
After the Collapse: Attrition and Survival of the Wood-Firing Ladrilleras	p. 137
Survival of the Fittest: Gas-Firing Ladrilleras and Cross-Border Truckers	p. 167
The Present and Future of Handmade Brick for Texas	p. 181
Photographs	p. 211
Method in the Border Brick Industry Project Revisited	p. 233
Bibliography	p. 239
Index	p. 243
About the Author	p. 255
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Handmade Brick for Texas A Mexican Border Industry, Its Workers, and Its Business

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