Table of Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. Colonizing a Movement: The FederaciÓn Libre de Trabajo in Puerto Rico
• Chapter 2. Dreams of Democratic Unionism: The ConfederaciÓn General de Trabajadores and Puerto Rican Agricultural Workers
• Chapter 3. Up from Colonialism: Hawaiian Plantation Agriculture and the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union
• Chapter 4. Challenges and Survival: Sustaining Agricultural Unionism in Hawai'i
• Chapter 5. Marked in the Annals of the Labor Movement: The National Farm Labor Union, Organized Labor, and the DiGiorgio Strike
• Chapter 6. From Factory to Industrial Area: Areawide Organizing in the San Joaquin and Imperial Valleys
• Retrospective and Prospectus
• Notes
• Glossary: Acronyms, Abbreviations, and Short Terms
• Bibliography
• Index

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This pioneering comparative study investigates how agricultural workers in Puerto Rico, Hawai'i, and California struggled to organize and create a place for themselves in the institutional life of the United States

About the Author

Dionicio NodÍn ValdÉs is Professor of History at Michigan State University. He has written extensively on labor and social history, including the books Barrios NorteÑos: St. Paul and Midwestern Mexican Communities in the Twentieth Century and Al Norte: Agricultural Workers in the Great Lakes Region, 1917–1990.

Reviews

This book is an extremely well-researched history with a compelling mission to bring three distinct areas of the United States together into a single story…ValdÉs’s study is an important contribution to the field of agricultural labor history. (American Historical Review)