This project highlights the need for the gathering and preservation of structured as well as openended oral interviews, documentation and analysis. The preservation of existing documents, testimony, family correspondence, photos, and narratives are an invaluable research resource for future studies. Hence, the significance of Los Braceros: Memories of Bracero Workers 1942-1964 transcends the anecdotal; it is a study of the continuing, cyclic push-pull pattern of migration al norte that antedates the bracero program and that continues to this day. This book is, furthermore, uncannily timely (2004), as we see President George W. Bush, on the eve of the presidential primaries, present a revival of a "Guest Worker Plan" to dry out some eight to eleven million undocumented immigrants living in the United States. We see, that however it is accomplished, a supply of cheap Mexican labor will be made available to American business. United States Government, labor, and business have historically been power players, with the Mexican Government ritually accommodating itself to the dynamics of the U.S. labor market and to the United States Government"s accommodation to the needs of American big business. Mexican laborers are the commodity in silent expectation of improving life chances for themselves and especially for their families. --- from book"s back cover