Obreros Unidos

Author : Jesus Salas
Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781976600081

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Obreros Unidos by Jesus Salas Pdf

In an expansive narrative, noted labor leader Jesus Salas shares an insider’s look at the farm workers movement, from its roots in southern political uprisings to its lasting legacy of activism. During his childhood, Salas and his family joined the migrant workers who traveled from their hometown in Texas to work on farms in Wisconsin, Illinois, and other states. In riveting detail, he describes the brutal working conditions and overcrowded labor camps experienced by the Mexican American workers who fueled the Midwest’s agriculture industry. Taking inspiration from César Chávez, as a young man Salas and others led a historic march from Wautoma to Madison to demand that lawmakers address rampant violations of Wisconsin’s minimum wage laws and housing codes. These young labor leaders founded Obreros Unidos—Workers United—to continue the fight for fairness and respect, as well as to provide much-needed services to migrant families. This memoir of a movement details how their work went beyond the fields to have lasting impacts on representation in community organizations and access to education, empowering later generations to demand better.

Author : Marc S. Rodriguez
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Mexican American migrant agricultural laborers
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025336129

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Obreros Unidos by Marc S. Rodriguez Pdf

This dissertation examines the role played by young Chicano migrant farm workers in the creation of the Chicano Movement after 1950. It argues that the Chicano Movement grew out of a translocal migrant community operating between Wisconsin and Texas. After 1950, Chicanos in Crystal City, Texas, where they represented the majority population, pushed for an end to school segregation. This advocacy facilitated youth entry into the local Chicano migrant worker political movement, which elected five Chicanos, known as Los Cinco, to the city council in Crystal City. Though Los Cinco only held office between 1963--1965, young Chicanos carried an activist impulse north to Wisconsin. In Wisconsin, with the assistance of local progressives, these activists pushed for the reform of conditions for migrant farm workers. This effort led to the founding of Obreros Unidos, a labor union, among Texas-Mexican migrant farm workers, who in turn transformed the migrant labor system to serve themselves. Once only a labor recruiting network, the migrant system now facilitated community mobilization in both Texas and Wisconsin. After 1969, as the union deteriorated, activists spread out to take positions with migrant-serving agencies operating under the Office of Economic Opportunity in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where they called for and won Chicano control of "War on Poverty" agencies. After 1970, as political protest under the banner of La Raza Unida Party developed in Crystal City, Cristaleno activists, trained in Wisconsin, returned to their hometown as leaders. The Chicano Movement thus developed in Crystal City and Wisconsin, and took as its single greatest resource the translocal migrant farm worker network operating across the Midwestern migrant stream. And over an eventful decade, the activists gained a permanent political presence in both Texas border politics and Wisconsin welfare agencies.

Author : Jeffrey Edgar Wesley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Agricultural laborers
ISBN : CORNELL:31924002225054

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Obreros Unidos - United Workers V. Libby, McNeill and Libby by Jeffrey Edgar Wesley Pdf

Author : Marc S. Rodriguez
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807834640

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The Tejano Diaspora by Marc S. Rodriguez Pdf

Each spring during the 1960s and 1970s, a quarter million farm workers left Texas to travel across the nation, from the Midwest to California, to harvest America's agricultural products. During this migration of people, labor, and ideas, Tejanos establish

Author : Jane J. Mansbridge,Aldon Morris
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2001-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226503622

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Oppositional Consciousness by Jane J. Mansbridge,Aldon Morris Pdf

How can human beings be induced to sacrifice their lives—even one minute of their lives-for the sake of their group? This question, central to understanding the dynamics of social movements, is at the heart of this collection of original essays. The book is the first to conceptualize and illustrate the complex patterns of negotiation, struggle, borrowing, and crafting that characterize what the editors term "oppositional consciousness"—an empowering mental state that prepares members of an oppressed group to undermine, reform, or overthrow a dominant system. Each essay employs a recent historical case to demonstrate how oppositional consciousness actually worked in the experience of a subordinate group. Based on participant observation and interviews, chapters focus on the successful social movements of groups such as African Americans, people with disabilities, sexually harassed women, Chicano workers, and AIDS activists. Ultimately, Oppositional Consciousness sheds new light on the intricate mechanisms that drive the important social movements of our time. Contributors: Naomi Braine, Sharon Groch, Fredrick C. Harris, Jane Mansbridge, Anna-Maria Marshall, Aldon Morris, Marc Simon Rodriguez, Brett C. Stockdill, Lori G. Waite

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1968-06
Category : Labor laws and legislation
ISBN : UIUC:30112101568845

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Monthly Labor Review by Anonim Pdf

Publishes in-depth articles on labor subjects, current labor statistics, information about current labor contracts, and book reviews.

Author : United States. Office of Labor-Management Standards Enforcement
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Labor unions
ISBN : UIUC:30112047448201

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Register of Reporting Labor Organizations by United States. Office of Labor-Management Standards Enforcement Pdf

A register of labor organizations which filed reports with the U.S. Department of Labor under the provisions of the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act, as amended, or the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 904 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Labor laws and legislation
ISBN : UIUC:30112011698575

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Union Officer Elections and Trusteeships Case Digest by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sergio González
Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780870208355

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Mexicans in Wisconsin by Sergio González Pdf

From agricultural and factory workers to renowned writers and musicians, the Mexican immigrants who have made their homes in Wisconsin over the past century have become a significant and diverse part of this state’s cultural and economic history. Coming from a variety of educational and professional backgrounds, the earliest Mexican immigrants traveled north in search of better economic opportunities and relief from the violence and economic turmoil of the Mexican Revolution. They found work in tanneries and foundries, and on beet farms where they replaced earlier European immigrant workers who had moved on to family farms. As Mexican immigration has grown to the present day, these families have become integral members of Wisconsin communities, building businesses, support systems, and religious institutions. But their experience has also been riddled with challenges, as they have fought for adequate working conditions, access to education, and acceptance amid widespread prejudice. In this concise history, learn the fascinating stories of this vibrant and resilient immigrant population: from the Tejano migrant workers who traveled north seasonally to work in the state’s cucumber fields, to the determined labor movement led by Jesus Salas, to the young activists of the Chicano Movement, and beyond.

Author : Paul H. Geenen
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781625849069

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Civil Rights Activism in Milwaukee by Paul H. Geenen Pdf

In the early 1960s, as members of Milwaukee's growing African American population looked beyond their segregated community for better jobs and housing, they faced bitter opposition from the real estate industry and union leadership. In an era marked by the friction of racial tension, the south side of Milwaukee earned a reputation as a flashpoint for prejudice, but it also served as a staging ground for cooperative activism between members of Father Groppi's parish, representatives from the NAACP Youth Council, students at Alverno College and a group of Latino families. Paul Geenen chronicles the challenges faced by this coalition in the fight for open housing and better working conditions for Milwaukee's minority community.

Author : Jim Norris
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0873516311

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North for the Harvest by Jim Norris Pdf

Throughout most of the twentieth century, thousands of Mexicans traveled north to work the sugar beet fields of the Red River Valley. North for the Harvest examines the evolving relationships between Amercian Crystal Sugar Company, the sugar beet growers, and the migrant workers. Though popular convention holds that migrant workers were invariably exploited, Norris reveals that these relationships were more complex. The company often clashed with growers, sometimes while advocating for workers. And many growers developed personal ties with their workers, while workers themselves often found ways to leverage better pay and working conditions from the company. Ultimately, the lot of workers improved as the years went by. As one worker explained, something historic occurred for his family while working in the Red River Valley: "We broke the chain there."

Author : Sergio M. González
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2024-03-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780252056727

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Strangers No Longer by Sergio M. González Pdf

Hospitality practices grounded in religious belief have long exercised a profound influence on Wisconsin’s Latino communities. Sergio M. González examines the power relations at work behind the types of hospitality--welcoming and otherwise--practiced on newcomers in both Milwaukee and rural areas of the Badger State. González’s analysis addresses central issues like the foundational role played by religion and sacred spaces in shaping experiences and facilitating collaboration among disparate Latino groups and across ethnic lines; the connections between sacred spaces and the moral justification for social justice movements; and the ways sacred spaces evolved into places for mitigating prejudice and social alienation, providing sanctuary from nativism and repression, and fostering local and transnational community building. Perceptive and original, Strangers No Longer reframes the history of Latinos in Wisconsin by revealing religion’s central role in the settlement experience of immigrants, migrants, and refugees.

Author : Mark Overmyer-Velazquez
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 990 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781573569804

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Latino America [2 volumes] by Mark Overmyer-Velazquez Pdf

A Hispanic and Latino presence in what is now the United States goes back to Spanish settlement in the sixteenth century in Florida and the progressive U.S. conquest of the Spanish-controlled territory of California and the Southwest by 1853 and the Gadsden Purchase. Mexicans in this newly American territory had to struggle to hold on to their land. The overlooked history and the debates over new immigration from Mexico and Central America are illuminated by this first state-by-state history of people termed Latinos or Hispanics. Much of this information is hard to find and has never been researched before. Students and other readers will be able to trace the Latino presence through time per state through a chronology and historical overview and read about noteworthy Latinos in the state and the cultural contributions Latinos have made to communities in that state. Taken together, a more complete picture of Latinos emerges. The information allows understanding of the current status-where the Latino presence is now, what types of work they are doing, and how they are faring in places with only a small Latino presence. All 50 states and the District of Columbia are covered in individual chapters. A chronology starts the chapter, giving the main dates of Latino presence and important events and population figures. The historical overview is the core of the chapter. The cast of Latino presence and how they have made their livelihood along with relations with non-Latinos are discussed. A Notable Latinos section then provides a number of short biographical profiles. Cultural contributions are showcased in the final section, followed by a bibliography. A selected bibliography and photos complement the chapters.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Insular and International Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1200 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Puerto Rico
ISBN : LOC:00098413121

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Proposed Legislation to Authorize a Political Status Referendum in Puerto Rico by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Insular and International Affairs Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Insular and International Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1204 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UCBK:C040250435

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Proposed Legislation to Authorize a Political Status Referendum in Puerto Rico: Hearing held in San Juan, PR, March 9, 1990 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Insular and International Affairs Pdf