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Si Se Puede: The United Farm Workers, Civil Rights, and the Struggle for Justice in the Fields

dc.contributor.advisorJennifer Fronc
dc.contributor.advisorRick Lopez
dc.contributor.authorKeel, Roneva C
dc.contributor.departmentUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst
dc.contributor.departmentHistory
dc.date2023-09-23T06:58:49.000
dc.date.accessioned2024-04-26T21:17:07Z
dc.date.available2012-04-12T00:00:00Z
dc.date.issued2012-01-01
dc.date.submittedMay
dc.description.abstractSince the system of industrial agriculture first emerged in mid-nineteenth century California, farm workers have been among the lowest-paid and ill treated workers in America’s labor force. Racism, nativism, and the entrenched political power of large-scale growers have combined to ensure that the predominantly non-white, largely foreign-born farm labor force has had little voice in the workplace. The United Farm Worker movement of the 1960s and the 1970s was the largest and most successful effort to alter the dynamics of farm worker power in the United States, giving farm workers greater autonomy in the workplace and resulting in concrete gains in terms of wages and working conditions. The UFW’s efforts culminated in the 1975 passage of California’s Agricultural Labor Relations Act (ALRA), the nation’s first ever law to guarantee farm workers the right to collectively bargain and form unions. But with the passage of the ALRA, the dynamics of power in farm labor relations changed once again; the future of the union would depend upon its ability to adapt to these new realities.
dc.description.degreeMaster of Arts (M.A.)
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.7275/2760611
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14394/47762
dc.relation.urlhttps://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1946&context=theses&unstamped=1
dc.source.statuspublished
dc.subjectUnited Farm Workers
dc.subjectCesar Chavez
dc.subjectLabor History
dc.subjectAgricultural History
dc.subjectCivil Rights Movement
dc.subjectUnited States History
dc.titleSi Se Puede: The United Farm Workers, Civil Rights, and the Struggle for Justice in the Fields
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digcom.date.embargo2012-04-12T00:00:00-07:00
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