Labor and community : Mexican citrus worker villages in a Southern California county, 1900-1950 / Gilbert G. González.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gonzalez, Gilbert G., 1941-

Series:

Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Centennial series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Citrus fruit industry--California--Orange County--Employees--History--20th century.

Citrus fruit industry.

Mexican American agricultural laborers--California--Orange County--History--20th century.

Mexican American agricultural laborers.

History.

Employees.

California--Orange County.

Physical Description:

xiv, 252 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1994]

Summary:

The emergence, maturity, and decline of the southern California citrus industry is seen here through the network of citrus worker villages that dotted part of the state's landscape from 1910 to 1960. Labor and Community shows how Mexican immigrants shaped a partially independent existence within a fiercely hierarchical framework of economic and political relationships. González relies on a variety of published sources and interviews with longtime residents to detail the education of village children; the Americanization of village adults; unionization and strikes; and the decline of the citrus picker village and rise of the urban barrio. His insightful study of the rural dimensions of Mexican-American life prior to World War II adds balance to a long-standing urban bias in Chicano historiography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [231]-248) and index.

ISBN:

0252020979

0252063880

OCLC:

28926973