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Monthly Review Press
Pub. Date
2013
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English
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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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Stanford University Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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"Although much has been written about the urban-rural divide in America, the city of Salinas, California, like so many other places in the state and nation whose economies are based on agriculture, is at once rural and urban. For generations, Salinas has been associated with migrant farmworkers from different racial and ethnic groups. This broad-ranging history of "the Salad Bowl of the World" tells a complex story of community-building in a multiracial,...
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English
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Here are seven articles written by John Steinbeck in 1936 as he toured squatters camps and Hoovervilles in California's migrant labor region, led by his friend Tom Collins, manager of a federal migrant labor camp. Steinbeck's personal and literary response led him to dedicate the novel "The Grapes of Wrath" (1939) in part to Tom.
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Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
1998, 1997
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English
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"The illustrated companion book to the PBS documentary of the same name tells the story of the late leader of America's migrant farmworkers and the United Farm Workers Union, and their battle against the giant agribusinesses."--Publisher's description.
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Verso
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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"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...
15) Mexican workers and American dreams: immigration, repatriation, and California farm labor, 1900-1939
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Rutgers University Press
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
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Contributions in American history volume no. 21
Publisher
Greenwood Press
Pub. Date
1973
Language
English
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