Of Forests and Fields - Mexican Labor in the Pacific Northwest

Informationen zum Autor MARIO JIMENEZ SIFUENTEZ is an assistant professor of history at the University of California, Merced.  Klappentext Just looking at the Pacific Northwest's many verdant forests and fields, it may be hard to imagine the intense work it took to transform the region into the agricultural powerhouse it is today. Much of this labor was provided by Mexican guest workers, Tejano migrants, and undocumented immigrants. Of Forests and Fields tells the story of these workers. Inhaltsverzeichnis           AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1       Many Miles from Home: The Bracero Program in the Pacific Northwest2       Los Tejanos: The Texas-Mexican Diaspora in Oregon3       The Genesis of the Willamette Valley Immigration Project4       Whip that Hoedad in the Ground: Undocumented Workers in the National Forest5       "Now I Can Hold My Own With Anybody": IRCA, Immigrant Organizing, and the Pineros y Campesinos Unidos Noroeste (PCUN)6       Huelga!: PCUN and Organizing Farm Workers in the Willamette ValleyEpilogue: La Lucha Sigue . . .          Notes          Index

Product details

• Authors: Mario Jimenez Sifuentez
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2016
• EAN: 9780813576893
• ISBN: 978-0-8135-7689-3
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Latinidad: Transnational Cultu; Latinidad: Transnational Cultu
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore