Author: George Otis CoalsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
The Development of the Migratory Farm Labor System in Texas, 1900-1954
Author: George Otis CoalsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
The Development of the Migratory Farm Labor System in Texas, 1900-1954
Author: George Otis CoalsonPublisher: R & E Research Associates
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Texas Labor History
Author: Bruce A. GlasrudPublisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1603449787
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Too often, observers and writers of Texas history have accepted assumptions about labor movements in the state—both organized and not—that do not bear up under the light of careful scrutiny. Offering a scholarly corrective to such misplaced suppositions, the studies in Texas Labor History provide a helpful new source for scholars and teachers who wish to fill in some of the missing pieces. Tackling a number of such presumptions—that a viable labor movement never existed in the Lone Star State; that black, brown, and white laborers, both male and female, were unable to achieve even short-term solidarity; that labor unions in Texas were ineffective because of laborers’ inability to confront employers—the editors and contributors to this volume lay the foundation for establishing the importance of labor to a fuller understanding of Texas history. They show, for example, that despite differing working conditions and places in society, many workers managed to unite, sometimes in biracial efforts, to overturn the top-down strategy utilized by Texas employers. Texas Labor History also facilitates an understanding of how the state’s history relates to, reflects, and differs from national patterns and movements. This groundbreaking collection of studies offers notable opportunities for new directions of inquiry and will benefit historians and students for years to come.
North for the Harvest
Author: Jim NorrisPublisher: Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN: 0873517466
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Jim Norris examines the complex relationships between American Crystal Sugar Company, the sugar beet growers, and Mexican migrant workers.
Report of the Commission on Agricultural Workers: Case studies and research reports prepared for the Commission on Agricultural Workers, 1989-1993
Author: United States. Commission on Agricultural WorkersPublisher:
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Category : Agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 858
Book Description
Building the Borderlands: A Transnational History of Irrigated Cotton along the MexicoTexas Border
Author: Casey WalshPublisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 160344436X
Category : Cotton farmers
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Cotton, crucial to the economy of the American South, has also played a vital role in the making of the Mexican north. The Lower Rio Bravo (Rio Grande) Valley irrigation zone on the border with Texas in northern Tamaulipas, Mexico, was the centerpiece of the Cardenas government's effort to make cotton the basis of the national economy. This irrigation district, built and settled by Mexican Americans repatriated from Texas, was a central feature of Mexico's effort to control and use the waters of the international river for irrigated agriculture. Drawing on previously unexplored archival sources, Casey Walsh discusses the relations among various groups comprising the "social field" of cotton production in the borderlands. By describing the complex relationships among these groups, Walsh contributes to a clearer understanding of capitalism and the state, of transnational economic forces, of agricultural and water issues in the U.S.-Mexican borderlands, and of the environmental impacts of economic development. Building the Borderlands crosses a number of disciplinary, thematic, and regional frontiers, integrating perspectives and literature from the United States and Mexico, from anthropology and history, and from political, economic, and cultural studies. Walsh's important transnational study will enjoy a wide audience among scholars of Latin American and Western U.S. history, the borderlands, and environmental and agricultural history, as well as anthropologists and others interested in the environment and water rights.
Migrant and Seasonal Farm Workers
Author: David R. HoytPublisher:
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Category : Migrant agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Farm Workers and the Churches
Author: Alan J. WattPublisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 160344193X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
In the mid-1960s, the charismatic César Chávez led members of California's La Causa movement in boycotting the grape harvest, and melon pickers in South Texas called a strike against growers, contesting unfair labor and wage practices in both states. In Farm Workers and the Churches, Alan J. Watt shows how the religious and social contexts of the farm workers, their leaders, and the larger society helped or hindered these two pivotal actions. Watt explores the ways in which liberal expressions of Northern Protestantism, transplanted to California and combined with the pro-labor wing of the Catholic Church and the heritage of Mexican popular piety, provided a fertile field for the growth of broad support for Chávez and his organizing efforts. Eventually, La Causa was able to achieve collective bargaining victories, including a historic labor contract between California agribusiness and farm workers. The movement did not fare as well in Texas, where the combination of a locally weak union leadership, a more conservative Southern Protestant ethos, and the strikebreaking measures of the Texas Rangers all boded ill. However, a general Chicano/a movement ultimately took permanent root in the state, because of the workers' struggle. Watt offers a careful examination of the complex interactions among religious traditions, social heritage, and ethnicity as these factors affected the course and outcomes of these two pioneering campaigns undertaken by La Causa.
Quantitive Studies in Agarian Hist
Author: Morton RothsteinPublisher: Purdue University Press
ISBN: 9781557532763
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
These essays were prepared for a conference held in Tallinn, Ethiopia, under the auspices of teh Soviet Academy of Sciences, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the International Research and Exchanges Board.
Labor Literature
Author: United States. Department of Labor. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description