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The Farm Labor Movement in the Midwest
Language: en
Pages: 258
Authors: W. K. Barger
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-07-22 - Publisher: University of Texas Press

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The Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC) was founded by Baldemar Velásquez in 1967 to challenge the poverty and powerlessness that confronted migrant farmwor
Agricultural Labor in the Midwest
Language: en
Pages: 1068
Authors: David Eugene Schob
Categories: Agricultural laborers
Type: BOOK - Published: 1970 - Publisher:

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Farm and Factory
Language: en
Pages: 278
Authors: Daniel Nelson
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 1995-12-22 - Publisher: Indiana University Press

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Farm and Factory illuminates the importance of the Midwest in U.S. labor history. America's heartland - often overlooked in studies focusing on other regions, o
Hired Hands and Plowboys
Language: en
Pages: 352
Authors: David E. Schob
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 1975 - Publisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press

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Before the Civil War, the livelihood of most Americans was involved in some way with farming. Yet, because of a lack of readily available information on workers
The Farm Labor Movement in the Midwest
Language: en
Pages: 235
Authors: Walter Kenneth Barger
Categories: Mexican American migrant agricultural laborers
Type: BOOK - Published: 1994 - Publisher:

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Barger and Reza tell the story of FLOC's founding as a sister organization of the United Farm Workers (UFW) in California.