Farmers' and Farm Workers' Movements

Farmers' and Farm Workers' Movements
Author: Patrick H. Mooney
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
Total Pages: 312
Release: 1995
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

The section on farm worker movements looks mainly at the agribusiness economy of California, beginning with farm worker mobilization in the depression era and the emergence of such prominent unions as the Cannery and Agricultural Workers Industrial Union and the United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing, and Allied Workers of America. The authors extensively examine the United Farm Workers (UFW) activism that began in 1965 under the late Cesar Chavez and culminated in 1975 with the passage of the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act. The achievements of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee in Ohio and Michigan during the 1980s and early 1990s is also compared with the relative failures of the UFW during that same time period, and the authors pay particular attention to the "control issues" that have been crucial among farm worker demands.

Food and Agricultural Policy for the 1980s

Food and Agricultural Policy for the 1980s
Author: David Gale Johnson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 264
Release: 1981
Genre: Political Science
ISBN:

Conference report on food policy and agricultural policy in the USA - covers agricultural development and consequences of farm policies in the 1970s, trends in international food production, food consumption and trade as well as likely effects on US agriculture, and discusses economic policy and agricultural policy alternatives for the 1980s. Graphs. Conference held in Washington 1980 Oct 2 and 3.