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Summary:

Documents the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC), AFL-CIO strike to secure a wage rate of $1.25 per hour for lettuce pickers in California. The film contains interviews with organizers and workers and reviews the 20th century history of labor organizing in California's fields.

Contributors:

Richards, Harvey , director

Estuary Press , production company, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prn

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

This edition in English.

Related Series:

American history in video

Subjects:

AFL-CIO

Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee

Agricultural laborers — California — History

Agricultural laborers — Labor unions — California

Lettuce industry — California

Strikes and lockouts — Agricultural laborers — California

Agricultural laborers

Agricultural laborers — Labor unions

Lettuce industry

Strikes and lockouts — Agricultural laborers

Strikes and lockouts

California

Genres:

Documentary films

Nonfiction films

Short films

History

System Details:

DVD-R.

General Notes:

NOTICE: This is a DVD-R and may not play on all DVD players.
Cover states the 1962 edition was 15 minutes. Actual dvd states 20 minutes and the 2014 ed. has menus added. Actual time is 16 minutes.
Public performance rights included.

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (16 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.

Audio Characteristics:

digital; optical

Digital Characteristics:

video file; DVD video

Call Numbers:

UNO 1962 DVD

OCLC Numbers:

958377421