Labor's outcasts : migrant farmworkers and unions in North America, 1934-1966

Author/Creator:

Hazelton, Andrew J., 1983- author

Publication/Creation:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2022]

Resource Type:

Book

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Full Title:

Labor's outcasts : migrant farmworkers and unions in North America, 1934-1966 / Andrew J. Hazelton

Series Titles:

The working class in American history
Working class in American history.

Variant Titles:

Migrant farmworkers and unions in North America, 1934-1966

Subjects/Genre

Subjects:

Migrant agricultural laborers--Labor unions--North America--History--20th century
Migrant agricultural laborers--United States--History--20th century
Migrant agricultural laborers--Mexico--History--20th century

Description/Summary

Table of Contents:

Introduction: "The Stepchildren of Labor" -- The Rise and Decline of Farmworker Unionism, 1934-46 -- Dominant Growers, Futile Organizing, 1946-51 -- Permanent Guestworkers, Struggling Union, 1951-54 -- Border Fantasies: Immigration and Cross-Border Organizing, 1948-55 -- Union Advocacy, Rising Liberalism, Indifferent Labor, 1955-59 -- Dying Union, Rising Movement, 1959-66 -- Conclusion: "Some Other Prophet".

Summary:

"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"--

Language:

English

Physical Type/Description:

xii, 241 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

9937605992402486

ISBN:

9780252044632
0252044630
9780252086700
0252086708

OCLC Number:

1273671818

Barcode:

010003514596