Author: Gabriel Thompson
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1786632209
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Lives from an invisible community—the migrant farmworkers of the United States The Grapes of Wrath brought national attention to the condition of California’s migrant farmworkers in the 1930s. Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers’ grape and lettuce boycotts captured the imagination of the United States in the 1960s and ’70s. Yet today, the stories of the more than 800,000 men, women, and children working in California’s fields—one third of the nation’s agricultural work force—are rarely heard, despite the persistence of wage theft, dangerous working conditions, and uncertain futures. This book of oral histories makes the reality of farm work visible in accounts of hardship, bravery, solidarity, and creativity in California’s fields, as real people struggle to win new opportunities for future generations. Among the narrators: Maricruz, a single mother fired from a packing plant after filing a sexual assault complaint against her supervisor. Roberto, a vineyard laborer in the scorching Coachella Valley who became an advocate for more humane working conditions after his teenage son almost died of heatstroke. Oscar, an elementary school teacher in Salinas who wants to free his students from a life in the fields, the fate that once awaited him as a child.
Factories in the Field
Author: Carey McWilliams
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520224132
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Dramatizing the misery of the dust bowl migrants hoping to find work in California agriculture, this text starts with the scandals of the Spanish land grant purchases, and goes on to examine the experience of ethnic groups that have provided labour for California's agricultural industry.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520224132
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Dramatizing the misery of the dust bowl migrants hoping to find work in California agriculture, this text starts with the scandals of the Spanish land grant purchases, and goes on to examine the experience of ethnic groups that have provided labour for California's agricultural industry.
Chasing the Harvest
Author: Gabriel Thompson
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1786632209
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Lives from an invisible community—the migrant farmworkers of the United States The Grapes of Wrath brought national attention to the condition of California’s migrant farmworkers in the 1930s. Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers’ grape and lettuce boycotts captured the imagination of the United States in the 1960s and ’70s. Yet today, the stories of the more than 800,000 men, women, and children working in California’s fields—one third of the nation’s agricultural work force—are rarely heard, despite the persistence of wage theft, dangerous working conditions, and uncertain futures. This book of oral histories makes the reality of farm work visible in accounts of hardship, bravery, solidarity, and creativity in California’s fields, as real people struggle to win new opportunities for future generations. Among the narrators: Maricruz, a single mother fired from a packing plant after filing a sexual assault complaint against her supervisor. Roberto, a vineyard laborer in the scorching Coachella Valley who became an advocate for more humane working conditions after his teenage son almost died of heatstroke. Oscar, an elementary school teacher in Salinas who wants to free his students from a life in the fields, the fate that once awaited him as a child.
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1786632209
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Lives from an invisible community—the migrant farmworkers of the United States The Grapes of Wrath brought national attention to the condition of California’s migrant farmworkers in the 1930s. Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers’ grape and lettuce boycotts captured the imagination of the United States in the 1960s and ’70s. Yet today, the stories of the more than 800,000 men, women, and children working in California’s fields—one third of the nation’s agricultural work force—are rarely heard, despite the persistence of wage theft, dangerous working conditions, and uncertain futures. This book of oral histories makes the reality of farm work visible in accounts of hardship, bravery, solidarity, and creativity in California’s fields, as real people struggle to win new opportunities for future generations. Among the narrators: Maricruz, a single mother fired from a packing plant after filing a sexual assault complaint against her supervisor. Roberto, a vineyard laborer in the scorching Coachella Valley who became an advocate for more humane working conditions after his teenage son almost died of heatstroke. Oscar, an elementary school teacher in Salinas who wants to free his students from a life in the fields, the fate that once awaited him as a child.
California's Farm Labor Problems
Author: California. Legislature. Senate. Fact Finding Committee on Labor and Welfare
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
California Farm Labor Relations and Law
Author: Walter A. Fogel
Publisher: Institute of Industrial Relations UCLA
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Topics discussed in this text include the economic and legal aspects of farm labor, unionization, the Agricultural Labor Relations Act and agriculture in California.
Publisher: Institute of Industrial Relations UCLA
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Topics discussed in this text include the economic and legal aspects of farm labor, unionization, the Agricultural Labor Relations Act and agriculture in California.
Farm Workers and Agri-business in California, 1947-1960
Author: Ernesto Galarza
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Agri-businessland; The encounters 1947-1952; The aatack on the bracero system 1952-1959; Labor relations of the Nawu; Death of a union.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Agri-businessland; The encounters 1947-1952; The aatack on the bracero system 1952-1959; Labor relations of the Nawu; Death of a union.
California's Farm Labor Problems
Author: California. Legislature. Senate. Fact Finding Committee on Labor and Welfare
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
California Annual Farm Labor Report
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
California's Farm Labor Problems, Part II
Author: California. Legislature. Senate. Fact Finding Committee on Labor and Welfare
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Bitter Harvest, a History of California Farmworkers, 1870-1941
Author: Cletus E. Daniel
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520047228
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520047228
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Hearing on Farm Labor
Author: California. Governor
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description