TY - BOOK ID - 12017856 TI - Curious unions PY - 2012 SN - 080323791X 0803244738 1283716607 9780803244733 9780803237919 9781496229038 1496229037 PB - Lincoln, Neb. University of Nebraska Press DB - UniCat KW - Foreign workers, Mexican -- California -- Oxnard -- History. KW - Labor movement -- California -- Oxnard -- History. KW - Mexican Americans -- Civil rights -- California -- Oxnard -- History. KW - Mexican Americans -- Cultural assimilation -- California -- Oxnard -- History. KW - Foreign workers, Mexican KW - Mexican Americans KW - Labor movement KW - Business & Economics KW - Labor & Workers' Economics KW - History KW - Civil rights KW - Cultural assimilation KW - History. KW - Alien labor, Mexican KW - Mexican foreign workers KW - Chicanos KW - Hispanos KW - Labor and laboring classes KW - Ethnology KW - Social movements KW - Civil rights&delete& KW - Cultural assimilation&delete& KW - E-books UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:12017856 AB - César E. Chávez came to Oxnard, California, in 1958, twenty years after he lived briefly in the city as a child with his migrant farmworker family during the Great Depression. This time Chávez returned as the organizer of the Community Service Organization to support the unionization campaign of the United Packinghouse Workers of America. Together the two groups challenged the agricultural industry's use of braceros (imported contract laborers) who displaced resident farmworkers.The Mexican and Mexican American populations in Oxnard were involved in cultural struggles and negotiation ER -