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Publisher
Monthly Review Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Description
In 1971, Bruce Neuburger--young, out of work, and radicalized by the 60s counterculture in Berkeley--took a job as a farmworker on a whim. He could have hardly anticipated that he would spend the next decade laboring up and down the agricultural valleys of California, alongside the anonymous and largely immigrant workforce that feeds the nation. This account of his journey begins at a remarkable moment, after the birth of the United Farm Workers union...
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Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Description
"A dramatic new history of Cesar Chavez and the rise and fall of the United Farm Workers. The slogan "Yes we can"--in the form "¡Sí Se Puede!"--doesn't originate with Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign. It goes back more than four decades to the heyday of the United Farm Workers, an organization that at its height won many labor victories, secured collective bargaining rights for California farm workers and became a major voice for the Latino...
13) A migrant family
Author
Publisher
Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
c1992
Language
English
Description
Portrays the life of twelve-year-old Juan Medina and his family, migrant workers living in Encinitas, California.
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