Labor and Community by Gilbert G Gonzalez

Labor and Community by Gilbert G Gonzalez

The emergence, maturity, and decline of the southern California citrus industry is seen here through the network of citrus worker villages that dotted part of the state's landscape from 1910 to 1960.  Labor and Community shows how Mexican immigrants shaped a partially independent existence within a fiercely hierarchical framework of economic and political relationships. GonzÁlez relies on a variety of published sources and interviews with longtime residents to detail the education of village children; the Americanization of village adults; unionization and strikes; and the decline of the citrus picker village and rise of the urban barrio. His insightful study of the rural dimensions of Mexican-American life prior to World War II adds balance to a long-standing urban bias in Chicano historiography.

"Forcefully argued, and interesting to read" -- Southwestern Historical Quarterly. "The social history of "la raza" in twentieth-century rural southern California has been enriched." -- Journal of American History

GILBERT G. GONZALEZ is professor emeritus in the Chicano Latino Studies Department at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of numerous publications, including Guest Workers or Colonized Labor?, Mexican Consuls and Labor Organizing, Labor and Community, and Culture of Empire. Gonzalez co-directed and produced the award-winning documentary The Harvest of Loneliness.

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ISBN 13	9780252063886
ISBN 10	0252063880
Title	Labor and Community
Author	Gilbert G Gonzalez
Series	Statue Of Liberty Ellis Island
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	University of Illinois Press
Year published	1994-09-01
Number of pages	280
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