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Organized agriculture and the labor movement before the UFW : Puerto Rico, Hawai'i, California
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ISBN: 0292734727 Year: 2011 Publisher: Austin : University of Texas Press,

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Puerto Rico, Hawai'i, and California share the experiences of conquest and annexation to the United States in the nineteenth century and mass organizational struggles by rural workers in the twentieth. Organized Agriculture and the Labor Movement before the UFW offers a comparative examination of those struggles, which were the era's longest and most protracted campaigns by agricultural workers, supported by organized labor, to establish a collective presence and realize the fruits of democracy. Dionicio Nodín Valdés examines critical links between the earlier conquests and the later organizing campaigns while he corrects a number of popular misconceptions about agriculture, farmworkers, and organized labor. He shows that agricultural workers have engaged in continuous efforts to gain a place in the institutional life of the nation, that unions succeeded before the United Farm Workers and César Chávez, and that the labor movement played a major role in those efforts. He also offers a window into understanding crucial limitations of institutional democracy in the United States, and demonstrates that the widespread lack of participation in the nation's institutions by agricultural workers has not been due to a lack of volition, but rather to employers' continuous efforts to prevent worker empowerment. Organized Agriculture and the Labor Movement before the UFW demonstrates how employers benefitted not only from power and wealth, but also from imperialism in both its domestic and international manifestations. It also demonstrates how workers at times successfully overcame growers' advantages, although they were ultimately unable to sustain movements and gain a permanent institutional presence in Puerto Rico and California.


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中国新生代农民工.
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ISBN: 9787020085637 Year: 2011 Publisher: 北京 人民文学出版社

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Organized agriculture and the labor movement before the UFW : Puerto Rico, Hawai'i, California
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ISBN: 9780292734722 0292734727 9780292726390 0292726392 0292743963 Year: 2011 Publisher: Austin : University of Texas Press,

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Puerto Rico, Hawai'i, and California share the experiences of conquest and annexation to the United States in the nineteenth century and mass organizational struggles by rural workers in the twentieth. Organized Agriculture and the Labor Movement before the UFW offers a comparative examination of those struggles, which were the era's longest and most protracted campaigns by agricultural workers, supported by organized labor, to establish a collective presence and realize the fruits of democracy. Dionicio Nodín Valdés examines critical links between the earlier conquests and the later organizing campaigns while he corrects a number of popular misconceptions about agriculture, farmworkers, and organized labor. He shows that agricultural workers have engaged in continuous efforts to gain a place in the institutional life of the nation, that unions succeeded before the United Farm Workers and César Chávez, and that the labor movement played a major role in those efforts. He also offers a window into understanding crucial limitations of institutional democracy in the United States, and demonstrates that the widespread lack of participation in the nation's institutions by agricultural workers has not been due to a lack of volition, but rather to employers' continuous efforts to prevent worker empowerment. Organized Agriculture and the Labor Movement before the UFW demonstrates how employers benefitted not only from power and wealth, but also from imperialism in both its domestic and international manifestations. It also demonstrates how workers at times successfully overcame growers' advantages, although they were ultimately unable to sustain movements and gain a permanent institutional presence in Puerto Rico and California.


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The effect of continuing education participation on agricultural worker outcomes
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Year: 2011 Publisher: [Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Dept. of Labor, Employment and Training Administration,

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H-2A visa program : meeting the growing needs of American agriculture? : hearing before the Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, first session, April 13, 2011.
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Policy and low-wage labor supply : a case study of policy and farm labor markets in New York state
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Year: 2011 Publisher: [Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Dept. of Labor, Employment and Training Administration,

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Left-behind children in rural China : impact study of rural labor migration on left-behind children in Mid-West China
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ISBN: 1283044242 9786613044242 1844640868 9781844640867 7801908341 9781844640829 9781283044240 6613044245 Year: 2011 Publisher: Beijing : Reading : Social Sciences Academic Press ; Paths International,

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This ground breaking work is the result of research by Plan International China and the China Agricultural University on children who have been left behind in their rural villages when their parents migrate to cities in search of work.


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Hirelings : African American workers and free labor in early Maryland
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ISBN: 0801461154 0801460670 9780801460678 080144778X 9780801447785 9780801447785 9780801461156 Year: 2011 Publisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press,

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In Hirelings, Jennifer Dorsey recreates the social and economic milieu of Maryland's Eastern Shore at a time when black slavery and black freedom existed side by side. She follows a generation of manumitted African Americans and their freeborn children and grandchildren through the process of inventing new identities, associations, and communities in the early nineteenth century. Free Africans and their descendants had lived in Maryland since the seventeenth century, but before the American Revolution they were always few in number and lacking in economic resources or political leverage. By contrast, manumitted and freeborn African Americans in the early republic refashioned the Eastern Shore's economy and society, earning their livings as wage laborers while establishing thriving African American communities.As free workers in a slave society, these African Americans contested the legitimacy of the slave system even while they remained dependent laborers. They limited white planters' authority over their time and labor by reuniting their families in autonomous households, settling into free black neighborhoods, negotiating labor contracts that suited the needs of their households, and worshipping in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Some moved to the cities, but many others migrated between employers as a strategy for meeting their needs and thwarting employers' control. They demonstrated that independent and free African American communities could thrive on their own terms. In all of these actions the free black workers of the Eastern Shore played a pivotal role in ongoing debates about the merits of a free labor system.


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American Specialty Agriculture Act : hearing before the Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, first session, on H.R. 2847, September 8, 2011.
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Rural housing service : opportunities exist to strengthen Farm Labor Housing Program management and oversight : report to congressional committees.
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Year: 2011 Publisher: [Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Govt. Accountability Office,

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