Mexican Railroad Labor In 1900, El Paso became the scene of intense recruitment efforts of Mexican workers as American railway companies struggled to fill their labor needs. Asian immigrants had ...

Schwartz, now 79, grew up in La Yarda, a community of Mexican railroad workers built in the mid-1920s that was destroyed in the flood of 1951. Photographs are currently on display in an exhibit at ...

The 1,970 rail, trolleybus, and cable car workers who make Mexico City run could go out on strike as soon as March 13. Their ...