What are the ideological and scholarly parameters currently shaping the historical study of Chicana/o labor and migration? Acuña, Zamora, Valdés, Gómez-Quiñones, and Navarro are the only Chicana/o scholars who have presented arguments similar to those initially put forth by Gonzalez, contending that the growth of Mexican migration and labor in the United States was a product of American capitalism and was exploited by American companies and elites to fuel imperial and industrial ends. Most of the scholarship examined in this bibliographical essay takes a moderate and revisionist scholarly approach to contextualizing Mexican migrant labor in the United States. The works of Gonzalez, Acuña, Navarro, Gómez-Quiñones, and Valdés challenge these ideologically moderate approaches. Still, all the scholarship presented here has introduced new perspectives to the study of Chicana/o labor and migration, a trend that future studies should continue.