Cannery Women, Cannery Lives: Mexican Women, Unionization, and the California Food Processing Industry, 1930-1950
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Women have been the mainstay of the grueling, seasonal canning industry for over a century. This book is their collective biography--a history of their family and work lives, and of their union. Out of the labor militancy of the 1930s emerged the United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing, and Allied Workers of America (UCAPAWA). Quickly it became the seventh largest CIO affiliate and a rare success story of women in unions. Thousands of Mexican and Mexican-American...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0826309887
ISBN13:9780826309884
Release Date:August 1987
Publisher:University of New Mexico Press
Length:194 Pages
Weight:0.70 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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