labor movement

Story of the son of poor Mexican Americans and his lifelong struggle for the rights of migrant farm workers.

Combines archival photographs of Cesar Chavez and the people with whom he worked with information about his life and accomplishments.

Contains nearly four hundred alphabetically arranged entries that provide information about topics in the history of American labor, including unions, labor leaders, laws and court cases, significant events, terminology, anti-union organizations, and others. Includes illustrations and primary documents.

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.

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.

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.

Discusses the labor strike against the Pullman Palace Car Company in Pullman, Illinois, in 1894, and the federal government's use of force to keep the railroads operating and to control the striking workers.

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