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Author Ruiz, Vicki L

Title Cannery Women, Cannery Lives : Mexican Women, Unionization, and the California Food Processing Industry, 1930-1950
Published Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 1987

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Description 1 online resource (213 pages)
Contents 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
Summary 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
Notes Print version record
Subject United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing, and Allied Workers of America -- History
SUBJECT United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing, and Allied Workers of America fast
Subject Women labor union members -- California -- History -- Case studies
Mexican American women -- California -- History -- Case studies
Women cannery workers -- California -- History -- Case studies
Cannery workers -- Labor unions -- California -- History -- Case studies
Mexican American labor union members -- California
Cannery workers -- Labor unions
Mexican American labor union members
Mexican American women
Women cannery workers
Women labor union members
California
Genre/Form Case studies
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780826324696
082632469X
058520280X
9780585202808