Cannery women, cannery lives : Mexican women, unionization, and the California food processing industry, 1930-1950 /

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Women have been the mainstay of the grueling, seasonal canning industry for over a century. This book is their collective biography---a history of their family and work lives, and of their union. Out of the labor militancy of the 1930s emerged the United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing, and Allied Wo...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Ruíz, Vicki
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Albuquerque, N.M. : University of New Mexico Press, ©1987.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Latino literature.
Subjects:
United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing, and Allied Workers of America > History.
United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing, and Allied Workers of America.
Geschichte 1930-1950
Women labor union members > California > History > Case studies.
Mexican American women > California > History > Case studies.
Women cannery workers > California > History > Case studies.
Cannery workers > Labor unions > California > History > Case studies.
Mexican American labor union members > California.
Américaines d'origine mexicaine > Californie > Histoire > Études de cas.
Conserveries > Personnel féminin > Californie > Histoire > Études de cas.
Conserveries > Personnel > Syndicats > Californie > Histoire > Études de cas.
Syndiqués américains d'origine mexicaine > Californie.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
Cannery workers > Labor unions.
Mexican American labor union members.
Mexican American women.
Women cannery workers.
Women labor union members.
Frau
Geschichte
Gewerkschaft
Konservenindustrie
Mexikanerin
California.
Kalifornien
Cannery workers > Labor unions > California > History > Case studies
Mexican American labor union members > California
Mexican American women > California > History > Case studies
United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing, and Allied Workers of America > History
Women cannery workers > California > History > Case studies
Women labor union members > California > History > Case studies
Case studies.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Community and family
  • The cannery culture
  • UCAPAWA and California agriculture
  • A promise fulfilled : UCAPAWA in Southern California
  • Women and UCAPAWA
  • Death of a dream.

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