Lettuce wars : ten years of work and struggle in the fields of California /

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 lar...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Neuburger, Bruce (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Monthly Review Press, 2013.
Subjects:
Agricultural laborers > Labor unions > California.
Strikes and lockouts > Agricultural laborers > California.
Agricultural laborers > California > Anecdotes.
Travailleurs agricoles > Syndicats > Californie.
Grèves et lock-out > Travailleurs agricoles > Californie.
Travailleurs agricoles > Californie > Anecdotes.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Personal Memoirs.
Agricultural laborers.
Agricultural laborers > Labor unions.
Strikes and lockouts > Agricultural laborers.
California.
Anecdotes.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • A thinning crew or Los Agachados
  • Fall and winter
  • The winds keep blowing, 1972
  • The battle lines sharpen, spring 1973
  • Fires still burning
  • New law, 1975
  • 1976
  • Discontent
  • A lettuce strike
  • Victory from defeat; defeat from victory:
  • Spring 1979 to summer, 1982 and beyond.

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