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Agricultural history
Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee
American Federation of Labor
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Bracero Program
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Cesar Chavez
Community Service Organization
Congress of Industrial Organizations
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Cotton
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Di Giorgio Strike
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Ernesto Galarza
Farmworkers
George Meany
George Sanchez
Guestworkers
Harry Leland HL Mitchell
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League of United Latin American Citizens
Mexico
National Agricultural Workers Union
National Farm Labor Union
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Partido Revolucionario Institucional
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Southern Tenant Farmers Union
Truman Commission on Migratory Labor
United Farm Workers
United States
Walter Reuther
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- ISBN 9780252086700
- Weight: 340g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 13 Sep 2022
- Publisher: University of Illinois Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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In the mid-twentieth century, corporations consolidated control over agriculture on the backs of Mexican migrant laborers through a guestworker system called the Bracero Program. The National Agricultural Workers Union (NAWU) attempted to organize these workers but met with utter indifference from the AFL-CIO. Andrew J. Hazelton examines the NAWU's opposition to the Bracero Program against the backdrop of Mexican migration and the transformation of North American agriculture. His analysis details growers’ abuse of the program to undercut organizing efforts, the NAWU's subsequent mobilization of reformers concerned by those abuses, and grower opposition to any restrictions on worker control. Though the union's organizing efforts failed, it nonetheless created effective strategies for pressuring growers and defending workers’ rights. These strategies contributed to the abandonment of the Bracero Program in 1964 and set the stage for victories by the United Farm Workers and other movements in the years to come.
Andrew J. Hazelton is an assistant professor of history at Texas A&M International University.
