Continuing la causa : organizing labor in California's strawberry fields /
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| Author / Creator: | Mireles, Gilbert Felipe. |
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| Imprint: | Boulder : FirstForumPress, A Division of Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., 2013. |
| Description: | 1 online resource |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Latinos : exploring diversity and change Latinos, exploring diversity and change. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12540459 |
Table of 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 ComiteĢ'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.