The standard account here is Neil Foley, The White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture, (Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1997).
Herbert Hovenkamp, Enterprise and American Law, 1836-1937 (Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1991), 320-21.
SeeGerald Berk, Louis D. Brandeis and the Making of Regulated Competition, 1900-1932, (New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2009), 1-32.
Joseph A. Schumpeter, Business Cycles: A Theoretical Historical, and Statistical Analysis of the Capitalist Process, 2 vols. (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1939), 1:340-41.