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Author:   Dionicio Nodín Valdés
Publisher:   University of Texas Press
Imprint:   University of Texas Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.481kg
ISBN:  

9780292743960

ISBN 10:   0292743963
Pages:   323
Publication Date:   01 July 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Colonizing a Movement: The Federación Libre de Trabajo in Puerto Rico Chapter 2. Dreams of Democratic Unionism: The Confederación General de Trabajadores and Puerto Rican Agricultural Workers Chapter 3. Up from Colonialism: Hawaiian Plantation Agriculture and the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union Chapter 4. Challenges and Survival: Sustaining Agricultural Unionism in Hawai'i Chapter 5. Marked in the Annals of the Labor Movement: The National Farm Labor Union, Organized Labor, and the DiGiorgio Strike Chapter 6. From Factory to Industrial Area: Areawide Organizing in the San Joaquin and Imperial Valleys Retrospective and Prospectus Notes Glossary: Acronyms, Abbreviations, and Short Terms Bibliography Index

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This book is an extremely well-researched history with a compelling mission to bring three distinct areas of the United States together into a single story…Valdés’s study is an important contribution to the field of agricultural labor history.--Greg Hall, Western Illinois University American Historical Review (10/01/2012)

This book is an extremely well-researched history with a compelling mission to bring three distinct areas of the United States together into a single story...Valdes's study is an important contribution to the field of agricultural labor history. American Historical Review

This book is an extremely well-researched history with a compelling mission to bring three distinct areas of the United States together into a single story...Valdes's study is an important contribution to the field of agricultural labor history.--Greg Hall, Western Illinois University American Historical Review (10/01/2012)

Author Information

Dionicio Nodín Valdés is Professor of History at Michigan State University. He has written extensively on labor and social history, including the books Barrios Norteños: St. Paul and Midwestern Mexican Communities in the Twentieth Century and Al Norte: Agricultural Workers in the Great Lakes Region, 1917–1990.

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