Labor's Outcasts

Migrant Farmworkers and Unions in North America, 1934-1966

Andrew J. Hazelton (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2022
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-04463-2 (ISBN)

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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.

Andrew J. Hazelton is an assistant professor of history at Texas A&M International University.

Erscheinungsdatum	15.09.2022
Reihe/Serie	Working Class in American History
Zusatzinfo	10 black & white photographs, 12 tables
Verlagsort	Baltimore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
	Wirtschaft
ISBN-10	0-252-04463-0 / 0252044630
ISBN-13	978-0-252-04463-2 / 9780252044632
Zustand	Neuware