More Details

Summary:

Scope and content: "Of Forest and Fields tells the story of the ethnic Mexicans that toiled in the fields, canneries, packing sheds, and forests who helped turn the Pacific Northwest into one of the most productive agricultural regions in the country. The book explores the struggle of Braceros, Tejanos, and Mexican immigrants, to contest their exploitation in various ways. The history of their resistance culminated in the creation of one of the most important farm worker's unions in the country, the Pineros y Campesinos Unidos Noreste (PCUN)"--Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: 1. Many Miles from Home: The Bracero Program in the Pacific Northwest
• 2. Los Tejanos: The Texas-Mexican Diaspora in Oregon
• 3. Genesis of the Willamette Valley Immigration Project
• 4. Whip That Hoedad in the Ground: Undocumented Workers in the National Forest
• 5. "Now I Can Hold My Own with Anybody": IRCA, Immigrant Organizing, and the Pineros y Campesinos Unidos Noroeste (PCUN)
• 6. Huelga!: PCUN Organization of Farmworkers in the Willamette Valley.

Author/Creator:

Sifuentez, Mario Jimenez, 1979- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Of forests and fields: Mexican labor in the Pacific Northwest [by Sifuentez, M.J.]

Related Series:

Latinidad

Subjects:

PCUN — History

Migrant agricultural laborers — Northwest, Pacific — History

Foreign workers, Mexican — Northwest, Pacific — History

Mexican Americans — Northwest, Pacific — History

Mexicans — Northwest, Pacific — History

Immigrants — Northwest, Pacific — History

Working class — Northwest, Pacific — History

Agricultural laborers — Labor unions — Northwest, Pacific — History

Northwest, Pacific — Economic conditions

Northwest, Pacific — Ethnic relations

PCUN

Migrant agricultural laborers

Foreign workers, Mexican

Mexican Americans

Mexicans

Immigrants

Working class

Agricultural laborers — Labor unions

Agricultural laborers

Economic conditions

Ethnic relations

United States

Pacific Northwest

Mexico

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

HD1527.N87 S54 2016eb

ISBNs:

9780813576923 (electronic bk.)
081357692X (electronic bk.)
9780813576909 [Invalid]
0813576903 [Invalid]
9780813576893 [Invalid]
081357689X [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

944920102

Other Control Numbers:

1199722 (source: EbpS)
[Unknown Type]: ybp12892177