Continuing la causa : organizing labor in California's strawberry fields / Gilbert Felipe Mireles.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mireles Felipe, Gilbert, author.

Series:

Latinos, exploring diversity and change.

Latinos : exploring diversity and change

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Migrant agricultural laborers--Labor unions--California.

Migrant agricultural laborers.

Hispanic American agricultural laborers--California.

Hispanic American agricultural laborers.

Strawberry industry--Employees--California.

Strawberry industry.

Labor unions--Organizing--California.

Labor unions.

United Farm Workers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (170 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boulder : FirstForumPress, A Division of Lynne Rienner Publishers, Incorporated, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Explores the successes, failures, and implications of the legendary United Farm Workers’ campaign to organize laborers, predominantly Latino immigrants, in California’s strawberry industry.

Contents:

Series page; Title page; copyright page; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; ch1-The United Farm Workers; ch2-The Drive to Organize; A Rocky Path to Unionization; Geography and Social Ethos; Understanding the UFW Strawberry Campaign; Networks, Organizations, and Institutions: A Theoretical Foundation; ch3-The Strawberry Industr4y Campaign; The Political Economy of Agriculture; The Role of Labor in Agriculture; The Strawberry Campaign in Detail; ch4-Immigrant Networks; Social Network Theory; Social Networks and Economic Behavior; Social Networks and the Organization of Production

Caciques and Kinch5-Institutional Inclusion and the Organization of Dissent; An Office, a Phone, and a P.O. Box; Dissent in Organizational Society; The Comité's Emergence and Attempt to Formalize; The UFW; Coastal Berry; Struggling to Bureaucratize; Learning the Rules of the Game; ch6-The Triumph of Effective Bureaucracy; The Political and Legal Campaign; The Corporate Campaign; The Grassroots Campaign; The Paradox of Farm Labor Organizing; ch7-Contexts for Success and Failure; Playing the Game; Organizational Fields; Institutions; The UFW and the ALRA

Mexican American Political Advocacy in California and the SouthwestFarm Labor Mobilization in California; The Emergence of the UFW; Ethnic Identity and Mobilization; ch8-Incorporating Immigrants into an Organization Society; The UFW's Organizational Structure and Identity; A New UFW under Rodriguez; Looking Ahead: Political Action, Fieldwork, or Both?; Appendix A: A Note on Methodology; Appendix B: A Timeline of Events: The UFW and Coastal Berry 1993-2004; Bibliography; Index; About the Book

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-179) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-62637-318-3

OCLC:

923912542