Organized Agriculture and the Labor Movement before the UFW : : Puerto Rico, Hawai’i, California / / Dionicio Nodín Valdés.

Puerto Rico, Hawai'i, and California share the experiences of conquest and annexation to the United States in the nineteenth century and mass organizational struggles by rural workers in the twentieth. Organized Agriculture and the Labor Movement before the UFW offers a comparative examination...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2011
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (323 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1 Colonizing a Movement: The Federación Libre de Trabajadores in Puerto Rico
  • 2. Dreams of Democratic Unionism: The Confederación General de Trabajadores and Puerto Rican Agricultural Workers
  • 3 Up from Colonialism: Hawaiian Plantation Agriculture and the International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union
  • 4 Challenges and Survival: Sustaining Agricultural Unionism in Hawai‘i
  • 5 Marked in the Annals of the Labor Movement: The National Farm Labor Union, Organized Labor, and the DiGiorgio Strike
  • 6 From Factory to Industrial Area: Areawide Organizing in the San Joaquin and Imperial Valleys
  • Retrospective and Prospectus: The Labor Movement and Agricultural Workers
  • Notes
  • Glossary: Acronyms, Abbreviations, and Short Terms
  • Bibliography
  • Index