1936 Strike
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Americanization
Author_Gilbert G. Gonzalez
Category=JH
citrus industry
citrus picker
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La Habra Citrus Association
Mexican immigrants
Mexican-American
Orange County
rural
Southern California
Southern California Fruit Growers Association
unionization
worker villages
Product details
- ISBN 9780252063886
- Weight: 426g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Sep 1994
- Publisher: University of Illinois Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The emergence, maturity, and decline of the southern California citrus industry is seen here through the network of citrus worker villages that dotted part of the state's landscape from 1910 to 1960. Labor and Community shows how Mexican immigrants shaped a partially independent existence within a fiercely hierarchical framework of economic and political relationships. GonzÁlez relies on a variety of published sources and interviews with longtime residents to detail the education of village children; the Americanization of village adults; unionization and strikes; and the decline of the citrus picker village and rise of the urban barrio. His insightful study of the rural dimensions of Mexican-American life prior to World War II adds balance to a long-standing urban bias in Chicano historiography.
