Lettuce wars : ten years of work and struggle in the fields of California / Bruce Neuburger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Neuburger, Bruce, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agricultural laborers--Labor unions--California.

Agricultural laborers.

Strikes and lockouts--Agricultural laborers--California.

Strikes and lockouts.

Agricultural laborers--California--Anecdotes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (416 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Monthly Review Press, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In 1971, Bruce Neuburger-young, out of work, and radicalized by the 60s counterculture in Berkeley-took a job as a farmworker on a whim. He could have hardly anticipated that he would spend the next decade laboring up and down the agricultural valleys of California, alongside the anonymous and largely immigrant workforce that feeds the nation. This account of his journey begins at a remarkable moment, after the birth of the United Farm Workers union and the ensuing uptick in worker militancy. As a participant in organizing efforts, strikes, and boycotts, Neuburger saw first-hand the struggles

Contents:

A thinning crew or Los Agachados

Fall and winter

The winds keep blowing, 1972

The battle lines sharpen, spring 1973

Fires still burning

New law, 1975

1976

Discontent

A lettuce strike

Victory from defeat; defeat from victory:

Spring 1979 to summer, 1982 and beyond.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-58367-335-0

1-58367-334-2

OCLC:

831625612