Farm Labor Organizing
Author: Maralyn Edid
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 140
ISBN-13: 9780875463216
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Traces the evolution of agricultural workers' trade unions from 1945 to 1993.
Author: Maralyn Edid
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 140
ISBN-13: 9780875463216
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Traces the evolution of agricultural workers' trade unions from 1945 to 1993.
Author: National Advisory Committee on Farm Labor (U.S.)
Publisher: New York : National Advisory Committee on Farm Labor
Published: 1967
Total Pages: 76
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: USA National Advisory Committee on Farm Labor
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Published: 1967
Total Pages: 76
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: W. K. Barger
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2010-07-22
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 0292792123
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC) was founded by Baldemar Velásquez in 1967 to challenge the poverty and powerlessness that confronted migrant farmworkers in the Midwest. This study documents FLOC's development through its first quarter century and analyzes its effectiveness as a social reform movement. Barger and Reza describe FLOC's founding as a sister organization of the United Farm Workers (UFW). They devote particular attention to FLOC's eight-year struggle (1978-1986) with the Campbell Soup company that led to three-way contracts for improved working conditions between FLOC, Campbell Soup, and Campbell's tomato and cucumber growers in Ohio and Michigan. This contract significantly changed the structure of agribusiness and instituted key reforms in American farm labor. The authors also address the processes of social change involved in FLOC actions. Their findings are based on extensive research among farmworkers, growers, and representatives of agribusiness, as well as personal involvement with FLOC leaders and supporters.
Author: John C. Leggett
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 138
ISBN-13: 9781882289660
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Introduction Chapter 3 The Size of The Slice Chapter 4 The Imperial Legacy: Racism and Omission of Triumph Chapter 5 Organizing The Unorganized: Combatting The Grower and The Labor Contractor Chapter 6 Taking It On The Chin and Fighting Back: Defensive and Offensive Strikes Chapter 7 Conclusions: Tactics Out of The Past For the Future Chapter 8 Appendix A: Mining The Fields: The Tindals and Migratory Farm Labor Chapter 9 Footnotes Chapter 10 Photograph Credits Chapter 11 Author Index
Author: Dionicio Nodín Valdés
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2011-07-01
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 029274479X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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 of those struggles, which were the era's longest and most protracted campaigns by agricultural workers, supported by organized labor, to establish a collective presence and realize the fruits of democracy. Dionicio Nodín Valdés examines critical links between the earlier conquests and the later organizing campaigns while he corrects a number of popular misconceptions about agriculture, farmworkers, and organized labor. He shows that agricultural workers have engaged in continuous efforts to gain a place in the institutional life of the nation, that unions succeeded before the United Farm Workers and César Chávez, and that the labor movement played a major role in those efforts. He also offers a window into understanding crucial limitations of institutional democracy in the United States, and demonstrates that the widespread lack of participation in the nation's institutions by agricultural workers has not been due to a lack of volition, but rather to employers' continuous efforts to prevent worker empowerment. Organized Agriculture and the Labor Movement before the UFW demonstrates how employers benefitted not only from power and wealth, but also from imperialism in both its domestic and international manifestations. It also demonstrates how workers at times successfully overcame growers' advantages, although they were ultimately unable to sustain movements and gain a permanent institutional presence in Puerto Rico and California.
Author: Patrick H. Mooney
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 312
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The section on farm worker movements looks mainly at the agribusiness economy of California, beginning with farm worker mobilization in the depression era and the emergence of such prominent unions as the Cannery and Agricultural Workers Industrial Union and the United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing, and Allied Workers of America. The authors extensively examine the United Farm Workers (UFW) activism that began in 1965 under the late Cesar Chavez and culminated in 1975 with the passage of the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act. The achievements of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee in Ohio and Michigan during the 1980s and early 1990s is also compared with the relative failures of the UFW during that same time period, and the authors pay particular attention to the "control issues" that have been crucial among farm worker demands.