Promise Unfulfilled : : Unions, Immigration, and the Farm Workers /

Promise Unfulfilled : : Unions, Immigration, and the Farm Workers / / Philip L. Martin.

In 1975, after vigorous campaigning by the United Farm Workers union, the state of California passed the Agricultural Labor Relations Act (ALRA), a pioneering self-help strategy granting farm workers the right to organize into unions. A quarter century later, only a tiny percentage of farm workers i...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Martin, Philip L.,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©2003
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.) :; 14 tables, 10 charts/graphs
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Prologue: What Went Wrong?
  • Part I. Farm labor and Unions
  • 1. California Farm Labor
  • 2. History of Farm Labor
  • 3. Farm Worker Unions
  • Part II. Unions and Collective Bargaining
  • 4. The ALRA, ALRB, and Elections
  • 5. Employer and Union Unfair Labor Practices
  • 6. Strikes and Remedies
  • Part III. Unions and Immigration
  • 7. Nontraditional Farm Worker Unions
  • 8. Immigration and Agriculture
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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