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Organized agriculture and the labor movement before the UFW [electronic resource] : Puerto Rico, Hawai'i, California / Dionicio Nodín Valdés.

By: Valdes, Dennis Nodin.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2011Edition: 1st ed.Description: vi, 313 p.Subject(s): Agricultural laborers -- Puerto Rico -- History | Labor unions -- Puerto Rico -- History | Agricultural laborers -- Hawaii -- History | Labor unions -- Hawaii -- History | Agricultural laborers -- California -- History | Labor unions -- California -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 331.88/130973 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
Colonizing a movement : the Federacion Libre de Trabajo in Puerto Rico -- Dreams of democratic unionism : the Confederacion General de Trabajadores and Puerto Rican agricultural workers -- Up from colonialism : Hawaiian plantation agriculture and the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union -- Challenges and survival : sustaining agricultural unionism in Hawai'i -- Marked in the annals of the labor movement : the National Farm Labor Union, organized labor, and the DiGiorgio Strike -- From factory to industrial area : areawide organizing in the San Joaquin and Imperial valleys.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Colonizing a movement : the Federacion Libre de Trabajo in Puerto Rico -- Dreams of democratic unionism : the Confederacion General de Trabajadores and Puerto Rican agricultural workers -- Up from colonialism : Hawaiian plantation agriculture and the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union -- Challenges and survival : sustaining agricultural unionism in Hawai'i -- Marked in the annals of the labor movement : the National Farm Labor Union, organized labor, and the DiGiorgio Strike -- From factory to industrial area : areawide organizing in the San Joaquin and Imperial valleys.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.