Cannery women, cannery lives : Mexican women, unionization, and the California food processing industry, 1930-1950 / / Vicki L. Ruíz

• Autore: Ruíz Vicki
• Pubblicazione: Albuquerque, : University of New Mexico Press, c1987
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xviii, 194 p. : ill. ; ; 24 cm.)
• Disciplina: 331.88/1640282/09794
• Soggetto topico: Cannery workers - Labor unions - California - History - Case studies; Mexican American labor union members - California; Mexican American women - California - History - Case studies; Women cannery workers - California - History - Case studies; Women labor union members - California - History - Case studies
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Bibliography: p. 171-188.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1 Community and Family -- 2 The Cannery Culture -- 3 UCAPAWA and California Agriculture -- 4 A Promise Fulfilled: UCAPAWA in Southern California -- 5 Women and UCAPAWA -- 6 Death of a Dream -- Appendixes -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
• Sommario/riassunto: This dramatic and turbulent history of UCAPAWA is a major contribution to the new labor history in its carefully documented account of minority women controlling their union and regulating their working lives.
• Titolo autorizzato: Cannery women, cannery lives
• ISBN: 9780826324696; 082632469X; 9780585202808; 058520280X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910975246203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II