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A Documentary History of Migratory Farm Labor in California: The California Cotton Pickers Strike, 1933 (Report). Oakland, Calif.: Federal Writers' Project. Bronfenbrenner, Kate (1990). "California Farmworkers' Strikes of 1933". In Filippelli, Ronald L. (ed.). Labor Conflict in the United States: An Encyclopedia. New York: Garland Publishing.
Carey McWilliams, Factories in the Field: The Story of Migratory Farm Labor in California, first published in 1939 by Little, Brown and Company, New edition, University of California Press (February 21, 2000) ISBN 0520224132; Devra Weber, Dark Sweat, White Gold: California Farm Workers, Cotton, and the New Deal, 1996 ISBN 9780520207103
Farm labor remained unorganized, the work brutal and underpaid. In the 1930s, 200,000 farm laborers traveled the state in tune with the seasons. [citation needed] Unions were accused of an "inland march" against landowners' rights when they took up the early effort to organize farm labor. A number of valley towns endorsed anti-picketing ...
In the 1930s there was a vast number of labor strikes that occurred within California specifically about agriculture known as the California Agricultural Strike 1933.The strikers were organized under the Cannery and Agricultural Workers' Industrial Union (CAWIU), a labor organization affiliated with the Communist party.
The AF was “[o]rganized in Fresno on 28 March 1934 by members of the California State Chamber of Commerce and the California Farm Bureau” and the founders considered it as “an emergency organization set up to prevent a recurrence of the strikes of 1933.” [2] Numerous farm organizations including the Grange and the Farm Bureau already ...
In 1975, the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act of 1975 was enacted, [21] establishing the right to collective bargaining for farmworkers in California, a first in U.S. history. [22] Individuals with prominent roles in farm worker organizing in this period include Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta, Larry Itliong, and Philip Vera Cruz.
The history of the Arvin Federal Government Camp begins with the migration of people displaced by the events of the Dust Bowl in the mid-1930s. A combination of droughts and high intensity dust storms forced many farmers in areas such as Oklahoma to vacate and find a new beginning. In the summer of 1934 the date July 24th marked the 36th ...
Fruit Season mural painted by Emrich Nicholson for the Vacaville post office, 1939. The Vacaville tree pruners' strike of 1932 was a two-month strike beginning on November 14 by the CAWIU in Vacaville, California, United States.