labor unions

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labor unions

Fear in Chile

lives under Pinochet
2001
Presents fourteen firsthand accounts of life in Chile under the regime of General Augusto Pinochet in the 1970s and early 1980s.

Working Detroit

The Making of a Union Time
1986
History of early years of United Auto Workers.

The rise of Solidarity

1987
Traces the post-World War II history of Poland and discusses how and why Solidarity came to be formed and its national and international impact. Includes a glossary of terms and a chronology of events.

Fight in the fields

Cesar Chavez
1998
While on detention for passing notes during a history lesson on Cesar Chavez, Kenneth and Aleesa are transported to a vineyard in the 1960s, where they see first-hand what Chavez, the union strikes, and the Schenley boycott did for migrant workers.

Farmers' and farm workers' movements

social protest in American agriculture
1995
Presents an overview of the history of farmer and farm labor movements, and examines the specifics of such movements at various times in American history, from the Colonial Period to the early 1990s.

Illegal people

how globalization creates migration and criminalizes immigrants
2008
Examines how American trade policy is linked to immigration. Focuses on how NAFTA put Oaxacan corn farmers out of business forcing them to follow their jobs across the border.

Struggle and lose, struggle and win

the United Mine Workers
1977
Traces the history of the United Mine Workers, the first major industry-wide union, emphasizing its struggles to organize, win improved conditions for its members, and rid itself of internal corruption.

Cesar Chavez

1991
Biography of the Mexican-American labor activist who organized and led the braceros, or migrant farm workers, in their struggle for better working conditions.

The unions

1982
Traces the growth and development of the labor movement during the nineteenth century.

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