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Jenkins, J. Craig; Perrow, Charles – American Sociological Review, 1977
Contrasts "the unsuccessful attempt to organize farm workers by the National Farm Labor Union from 1946 to 1952 with the strikingly successful one of the United Farm Workers from 1965 to 1972." Argues that "the difference between the two challenges was the societal response that insurgent demands received." (Author/JM)
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Economic Factors, Farm Labor, Labor Problems
Coppock, Marjorie L. – 1984
In spite of recent advances in mechanization, farmworkers continue to be a vital and necessary element in the harvesting of American crops. However, farmworkers, whether migrant or non-migrant, continue to have the lowest annual income of all occupational groups. The overriding concern is one of powerlessness. Farmworkers have been excluded at the…
Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, Braceros, Farm Labor, Group Behavior