Organized agriculture and the labor movement before the UFW Puerto Rico, Hawai'i, California /

Valdes, Dennis Nodin.

Organized agriculture and the labor movement before the UFW Puerto Rico, Hawai'i, California / [electronic resource] : Dionicio Nodin Valdes. - 1st ed. - Austin : University of Texas Press, 2011. - vi, 313 p.

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. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

9780292734722 (electronic bk.)




Agricultural laborers--History.--Puerto Rico
Labor unions--History.--Puerto Rico
Agricultural laborers--History.--Hawaii
Labor unions--History.--Hawaii
Agricultural laborers--History.--California
Labor unions--History.--California


Electronic books.

HD1527.C2 / V35 2011

331.88/130973