Organized Agriculture and the Labor Movement before the UFW | Puerto Rico, Hawai'i, California

Dionicio Nodín Valdés

ISBN 10: 0292743963 / ISBN 13: 9780292743960

Edité par University of Texas Press, 2011

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Organized Agriculture and the Labor Movement before the UFW | Puerto Rico, Hawai'i, California | Dionicio Nodín Valdés | Taschenbuch | Einband - flex.(Paperback) | Englisch | 2011 | University of Texas Press | EAN 9780292743960 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.

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• Titre: Organized Agriculture and the Labor Movement before the UFW | Puerto Rico, Hawai'i, California
• Éditeur: University of Texas Press
• Date de parution: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0292743963
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780292743960
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 229 L x 152 H x 19 P (en millimètres) 229 millimètres de largeur par 152 millimètres de hauteur par 19 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 534 grammes
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Synopsis

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.

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Dionicio Nodín Valdés is Professor of History at Michigan State University. He has written extensively on labor and social history, including the books Barrios Norteños: St. Paul and Midwestern Mexican Communities in the Twentieth Century and Al Norte: Agricultural Workers in the Great Lakes Region, 1917-1990.