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The Farm Labor Movement in the Midwest

Author : W. K. Barger
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292792123
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book The Farm Labor Movement in the Midwest written by W. K. Barger and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-22 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC) was founded by Baldemar Velásquez in 1967 to challenge the poverty and powerlessness that confronted migrant farmworkers in the Midwest. This study documents FLOC's development through its first quarter century and analyzes its effectiveness as a social reform movement. Barger and Reza describe FLOC's founding as a sister organization of the United Farm Workers (UFW). They devote particular attention to FLOC's eight-year struggle (1978-1986) with the Campbell Soup company that led to three-way contracts for improved working conditions between FLOC, Campbell Soup, and Campbell's tomato and cucumber growers in Ohio and Michigan. This contract significantly changed the structure of agribusiness and instituted key reforms in American farm labor. The authors also address the processes of social change involved in FLOC actions. Their findings are based on extensive research among farmworkers, growers, and representatives of agribusiness, as well as personal involvement with FLOC leaders and supporters.

The Farm Labor Movement in the Midwest

Author : Walter Kenneth Barger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780292758919
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (589 download)

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Download or read book The Farm Labor Movement in the Midwest written by Walter Kenneth Barger and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barger and Reza tell the story of FLOC's founding as a sister organization of the United Farm Workers (UFW) in California.

The Political Economy of Migrant Farm Labor and the Farmworker Movement in the Midwest

Author : James L. Terry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Political Economy of Migrant Farm Labor and the Farmworker Movement in the Midwest written by James L. Terry and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Farm and Factory

Author : Daniel Nelson
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253328830
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (288 download)

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Download or read book Farm and Factory written by Daniel Nelson and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1995-12-22 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Farm and Factory illuminates the importance of the Midwest in U.S. labor history. America's heartland - often overlooked in studies focusing on other regions, or particular cities or industries - has a distinctive labor history characterized by the sustained, simultaneous growth of both agriculture and industry. Since the transfer of labor from farm to factory did not occur in the Midwest until after World War II, industrialists recruited workers elsewhere, especially from Europe and the American South. The region's relatively underdeveloped service sector - shaped by the presumption that goods were more desirable than service - ultimately led to agonizing problems of adjustment as agriculture and industry evolved in the late twentieth century.

Farmers' and Farm Workers' Movements

Author : Patrick H. Mooney
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Farmers' and Farm Workers' Movements written by Patrick H. Mooney and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1995 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The section on farm worker movements looks mainly at the agribusiness economy of California, beginning with farm worker mobilization in the depression era and the emergence of such prominent unions as the Cannery and Agricultural Workers Industrial Union and the United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing, and Allied Workers of America. The authors extensively examine the United Farm Workers (UFW) activism that began in 1965 under the late Cesar Chavez and culminated in 1975 with the passage of the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act. The achievements of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee in Ohio and Michigan during the 1980s and early 1990s is also compared with the relative failures of the UFW during that same time period, and the authors pay particular attention to the "control issues" that have been crucial among farm worker demands.

Hired Hands and Plowboys

Author : David E. Schob
Publisher : Urbana : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Hired Hands and Plowboys written by David E. Schob and published by Urbana : University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the Civil War, the livelihood of most Americans was involved in some way with farming. Yet, because of a lack of readily available information on workers, farm labor has long been neglected by historians. Filing a major gap in the history of American agriculture, labor, and the frontier, David Schob studies this distinctive aspect of American life in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota from 1815 to 1860. Through hundreds of details drawn from farmers' records, diaries and letters, county histories, newspapers, and periodicals, Schob evokes the farm laborer as he broke prairies, harvested grain, drained ditches, dug wells, and worked during off-season winter months logging, sawmilling, and pork packing. Farm work varied with the season and with the ethnic background of the hired hands, each group of immigrants introducing its specialized tasks to the region--the Irish as ditchdiggers and trenchers, the Germans as horticulturists, and the Scandinavians as wood choppers. Together, these groups not only contributed to the economic development of the Midwest, but according to Schob, they also accelerated the westward movement of the American frontier. In addition to providing detailed accounts of the workers' duties and way of life, and information on wages, contracts, and working conditions for routine farm employment, the book sheds light on several previously ignored facets of agricultural and labor history: the work of chore boys and hired girls, whose services were equally important to industrious farmers, and the role of free black farm hands, who augmented the white labor force in the harvest fields and the hazardous work of well digging.

The Farm Labor Situation in the Midwest ...

Author : United States. Bureau of Agricultural Economics. Division of Program Surveys
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 4 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (648 download)

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Download or read book The Farm Labor Situation in the Midwest ... written by United States. Bureau of Agricultural Economics. Division of Program Surveys and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mining the Fields

Author : John C. Leggett
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9781882289660
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (896 download)

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Download or read book Mining the Fields written by John C. Leggett and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1998 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Introduction Chapter 3 The Size of The Slice Chapter 4 The Imperial Legacy: Racism and Omission of Triumph Chapter 5 Organizing The Unorganized: Combatting The Grower and The Labor Contractor Chapter 6 Taking It On The Chin and Fighting Back: Defensive and Offensive Strikes Chapter 7 Conclusions: Tactics Out of The Past For the Future Chapter 8 Appendix A: Mining The Fields: The Tindals and Migratory Farm Labor Chapter 9 Footnotes Chapter 10 Photograph Credits Chapter 11 Author Index

Heartland Blues

Author : Marc Dixon
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190917032
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Heartland Blues written by Marc Dixon and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Back to the Future -- The Capital-Labor Accord in Action -- Union Discord in Indiana -- Flipping the Script in Ohio -- The Insider Route in Wisconsin -- A Holding Pattern in the Midwest -- Labor Rights in the Era of Union Decline.

The Long Deep Grudge

Author : Toni Gilpin
Publisher : Haymarket Books
ISBN 13 : 1642590894
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book The Long Deep Grudge written by Toni Gilpin and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The definitive history of an important but largely forgotten labor organization and its heroic struggles with an icon of industrial capitalism.” —Ahmed A. White, author of The Last Great Strike This rich history details the bitter, deep-rooted conflict between industrial behemoth International Harvester and the uniquely radical Farm Equipment Workers union. The Long Deep Grudge makes clear that class warfare has been, and remains, integral to the American experience, providing up-close-and-personal and long-view perspectives from both sides of the battle lines. International Harvester—and the McCormick family that largely controlled it—garnered a reputation for bare-knuckled union-busting in the 1880s, but in the twentieth century also pioneered sophisticated union-avoidance techniques that have since become standard corporate practice. On the other side the militant Farm Equipment Workers union, connected to the Communist Party, mounted a vociferous challenge to the cooperative ethos that came to define the American labor movement after World War II. This evocative account, stretching back to the nineteenth century and carried through to the present, reads like a novel. Biographical sketches of McCormick family members, union officials and rank-and-file workers are woven into the narrative, along with anarchists, jazz musicians, Wall Street financiers, civil rights crusaders, and mob lawyers. It touches on pivotal moments and movements as wide-ranging as the Haymarket “riot,” the Flint sit-down strikes, the Memorial Day Massacre, the McCarthy-era anti-communist purges, and America’s late twentieth-century industrial decline. “A capitalist family dynasty, a radical union, and a revolution in how and where work gets done—Toni Gilpin’s The Long Deep Grudge is a detailed chronicle of one of the most active battlefronts in our ever-evolving class war.” —John Sayles

Labor's Outcasts

Author : Andrew J. Hazelton
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252053648
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Labor's Outcasts written by Andrew J. Hazelton and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2022-09-13 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid-twentieth century, corporations consolidated control over agriculture on the backs of Mexican migrant laborers through a guestworker system called the Bracero Program. The National Agricultural Workers Union (NAWU) attempted to organize these workers but met with utter indifference from the AFL-CIO. Andrew J. Hazelton examines the NAWU's opposition to the Bracero Program against the backdrop of Mexican migration and the transformation of North American agriculture. His analysis details growers’ abuse of the program to undercut organizing efforts, the NAWU's subsequent mobilization of reformers concerned by those abuses, and grower opposition to any restrictions on worker control. Though the union's organizing efforts failed, it nonetheless created effective strategies for pressuring growers and defending workers’ rights. These strategies contributed to the abandonment of the Bracero Program in 1964 and set the stage for victories by the United Farm Workers and other movements in the years to come.

Plantation Workers

Author : Brij V. Lal
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824814960
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (149 download)

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Download or read book Plantation Workers written by Brij V. Lal and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1993-11-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten essays fill in some gaps in the study of plantations by exploring the experience of the workers themselves, focusing on their reaction and adaptation to their situation, which ranged from acquiescence to rebellion.

Hired Hands and Plowboys

Author : David E. Schob
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780252005091
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Hired Hands and Plowboys written by David E. Schob and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Roots of Reform

Author : Elizabeth Sanders
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226734773
Total Pages : 543 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Roots of Reform written by Elizabeth Sanders and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1999-08 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a revision of the understanding of the rise of the American regulatory state in the late 19th century, this book argues that politically mobilised farmers were the driving force behind most of the legislation that increased national control.

So Shall Ye Reap

Author : Joan London
Publisher : New York : Crowell
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book So Shall Ye Reap written by Joan London and published by New York : Crowell. This book was released on 1970 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the farm labor movement from its roots in the nineteenth century to the conclusion of the graps strike.

Farm Workers, Agribusiness, and the State

Author : Linda C. Majka
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Farm Workers, Agribusiness, and the State written by Linda C. Majka and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical account of the social conflict between agricultural workers and agribusiness, and the role of state intervention in California, USA - analyses agricultural trade unionism since 1870, immigration of Chinese, Japanese, Mexicans and Filipinos, and its regulation; examines the economic recession of the 1930s, rise of rural worker organizations, internal migration, and state-enrolled contract labour; reports on the formation of the United Farm Workers and its struggle for trade union recognition, opposition, and state mediation. Bibliography.

Front Porch Politics

Author : Michael S. Foley
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0809054825
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Front Porch Politics written by Michael S. Foley and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An on-the-ground history of ordinary Americans who took to the streets when political issues became personal. It is widely believed that Americans of the 1970s and '80s were exhausted by the upheavals of the '60s and eager to retreat to the private realm. When they did take action, it was mainly to express their disillusionment with government by supporting the right. In fact, as Michael Stewart Foley shows, neither of these assumptions is correct. On the community level, the 1970s and '80s saw vibrant new forms of political activity emerge. Tenants challenged landlords, farmers practiced civil disobedience to protect their land, and laid-off workers asserted a right to own their idled factories. Activists fought to defend the traditional family or to expand the rights of women, while entire towns organized to protest the toxic sludge in their basements. In all these arenas, Americans were propelled by their own experiences into the public sphere. Disregarding conventional ideas of "left" and "right," they turned to political action when they perceived an immediate threat to the safety and security of their families, homes, or dreams. Front Porch Politics is a people's history told through on-the-ground experiences. Recalling crusades famous and forgotten, Foley shows how Americans followed their outrage into the streets. Their distinctive style of visceral, local, and highly personal activism remains a vital resource for the renewal of American democracy"--