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Labor's Outcasts: Migrant Farmworkers and Unions in North America, 1934-1966
University of Illinois Press, 2022 Cloth: 978-0-252-04463-2 | Paper: 978-0-252-08670-0 | eISBN: 978-0-252-05364-1 Library of Congress Classification HD6515.A29 Dewey Decimal Classification 331.88130973
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
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. See other books on: Labor & Industrial Relations | Labor unions | Migrant agricultural laborers | Social Classes & Economic Disparity | Unions See other titles from University of Illinois Press |
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Labor's Outcasts: Migrant Farmworkers and Unions in North America, 1934-1966
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
University of Illinois Press, 2022
Cloth: 978-0-252-04463-2
Paper: 978-0-252-08670-0
eISBN: 978-0-252-05364-1
Cloth: 978-0-252-04463-2
Paper: 978-0-252-08670-0
eISBN: 978-0-252-05364-1
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.
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
