Organized agriculture and the labor movement before the UFW
Subtitle: Puerto Rico, Hawai'i, California
By: Dionicio Nodín Valdés
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Austin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 313
ISBN-13: 9780292726390; 9780292734722
Subjects: Agricultural laborers; Labor unions; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-301) and index.
Table of contents: title: Colonizing a movement : the Federacion Libre de Trabajo in Puerto Rico; title: Dreams of democratic unionism : the Confederacion General de Trabajadores and Puerto Rican agricultural workers; title: Up from colonialism : Hawaiian plantation agriculture and the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union; title: Challenges and survival : sustaining agricultural unionism in Hawai'i; title: Marked in the annals of the labor movement : the National Farm Labor Union, organized labor, and the DiGiorgio Strike; title: From factory to industrial area : areawide organizing in the San Joaquin and Imperial valleys.