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Cannery women, cannery lives: Mexican women, unionization, and the California food processing industry, 1930-1950
Cannery women cannery lives Mexican women unionization and the California food processing industry 19301950
Author: Vicki Ruiz
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...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780826310064
ISBN-10: 0826310060
Pages: 194
Edition: 1st
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Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Book Type: Unknown Binding
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