labor leaders

Includes bibliographical references.

Emma Tenayuca, a young Mexican American girl in San Antonio in the 1920s, learns about poverty and hunger while people work long hours for slave wages at pecan-shelling factories, and at the age of twenty-one leads twelve thousand workers in a struggle for justice.

Examines the life of Casar E. Chavez, discussing his work as a farm laborer, and looking at his efforts to unionize farm workers in order to provide them better pay and working conditions.

Simple Spanish text presents the life story of the Mexican American labor leader who achieved justice for migrant farm workers by creating a union to protect their rights.

A biography of the labor leader who grew up in Ireland, emigrated to the United States, lost her family to yellow fever, and helped the mistreated working class, from coal miners to child mill workers, achieve better working conditions in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

Presents the life of Cesar Chavez, focusing primarily on his work organizing the National Farm Workers Association and working for improved working and living conditions for all Mexican Americans.

Explores the life and career of Mary Harris Jones as an effective union organizer and speaker during the early 1900s.

The story of Annie Clemenc and the 1913 strike by copper miners employed by the Calumet & Hecla Mining Company in upper Michigan.

Tells the story of Cesar Chavez and his fight to win dignity and justice for migrant farmworkers through the United Farm Workers union, and includes essays, letters, and poems contributed by men and women who participated on both sides of the struggle.