Militant Labor in the Philippines

Militant Labor in the Philippines
Author: Lois A. West
Publisher: Temple University Press
Total Pages: 272
Release: 1997
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781566394918

Using extensive interviews and first-hand observations, West traces the KMU's rise and eventual fragmentation in a time of economic and political crisis.

Worker Movement in the Philippines

Worker Movement in the Philippines
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Release: 1981
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Study of employment, working conditions and the labour movement in the Philippines - reviews expansion of capitalism and the labour movement' s history; looks at labour force participation of woman workers and child labour, migrant workers and wages; discusses the standing of the labour movement as manifested by labour relations; comments on labour legislation. References.

Philip Vera Cruz

Philip Vera Cruz
Author: Craig Scharlin
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2011-10-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0295802952

Filipino farmworkers sat down in the grape fields of Delano, California, in 1965 and began the strike that brought about a dramatic turn in the long history of farm labor struggles in California. Their efforts led to the creation of the United Farm Workers union under Cesar Chavez, with Philip Vera Cruz as its vice-president and highest-ranking Filipino officer. Philip Vera Cruz (1904–1994) embodied the experiences of the manong generation, an enormous wave of Filipino immigrants who came to the United States between 1910 and 1930. Instead of better opportunities, they found racial discrimination, deplorable living conditions, and oppressive labor practices. In his deeply reflective and thought-provoking oral memoir, Vera Cruz explores the toll these conditions took on both families and individuals. Craig Scharlin and Lilia V. Villanueva met Philip Vera Cruz in 1974 as volunteers in the construction of Agbayani Village, the United Farm Workers retirement complex in Delano, California. This oral history, first published in 1992, is the product of hundreds of hours of interviews. Elaine H. Kim teaches Asian American studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and is the author of Asian American Literature: An Introduction to the Writings and Their Social Context.

On the Workers' Movement

On the Workers' Movement
Author: Julie de Lima
Publisher: Sison Reader Series
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-06-13
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The growing imperialist turmoil in the world capitalist system makes socialism a clear prospect to the broad masses of the people. This necessitates the study of the historical background and the analysis of the current concrete conditions of the workers' movement in the Philippines and all over the world. Joma's firm wish was always for the proletariat and peoples of the world to dismantle the monopoly capitalist system and replace it with a just, democratic, and peaceful new world in which socialism prevails. About the Author: Jose Maria Sison led the reestablishment of the Communist Party of the Philippines in December 1968 as well as the founding of the New People's Army in March 1969 and the National Democratic Front in April 1973. He was the world's most outstanding theoreticians in Marxism-Leninism-Maoism. While living, he did research and wrote on Philippine and global issues as a public intellectual. About the Series: The International Network of Philippine Studies presents the 14th book of the Sison Reader Series: On the Workers' Movement. To follow shortly are On the Peasant Movement and Agrarian Revolution; On the Youth Movement; Women In Revolution and On the National Minorities and Their Right to Self Determination, Imperialism in the Philippines, Imperialism in Various Global Regions, On Ecology and the Environment, On People's Rights, Justice and Peace, Intensifying Interimperialist Contradictions, and many more books to complete the series.

Journey for Justice

Journey for Justice
Author: Gayle Romasanta
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Release: 2018-10
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ISBN: 9781732199323

This book, written by historian Dawn Bohulano Mabalon with writer Gayle Romasanta, richly illustrated by Andre Sibayan, tells the story of Larry Itliong's lifelong fight for a farmworkers union, and the birth of one of the most significant American social movements of all time, the farmworker's struggle, and its most enduring union, the United Farm Workers.