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- catalog abstract "Women have been the mainstay of the grueling, seasonal canning industry for over a century. This book is their collective biography---a history of their family and work lives, and of their union. Out of the labor militancy of the 1930s emerged the United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing, and Allied Workers of America (UCAPAWA). Quickly it became the seventh largest CIO affiliate and a rare success story of women in unions. Thousands of Mexican and Mexican-American women working in canneries in southern California established effective, democratic trade union locals run by local members. These rank-and-file activists skillfully managed union affairs, including negotiating such benefits as maternity leave, company-provided day care, and paid vacations---in some cases better benefits than they enjoy today. But by 1951, UCAPAWA lay in ruins---a victim of red baiting in the McCarthy era and of brutal takeover tactics by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.".
- catalog contributor b1922741.
- catalog created "c1987.".
- catalog date "1987".
- catalog date "c1987.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1987.".
- catalog description "Bibliography: p. 171-188.".
- catalog description "Women have been the mainstay of the grueling, seasonal canning industry for over a century. This book is their collective biography---a history of their family and work lives, and of their union. Out of the labor militancy of the 1930s emerged the United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing, and Allied Workers of America (UCAPAWA). Quickly it became the seventh largest CIO affiliate and a rare success story of women in unions. Thousands of Mexican and Mexican-American women working in canneries in southern California established effective, democratic trade union locals run by local members. These rank-and-file activists skillfully managed union affairs, including negotiating such benefits as maternity leave, company-provided day care, and paid vacations---in some cases better benefits than they enjoy today. But by 1951, UCAPAWA lay in ruins---a victim of red baiting in the McCarthy era and of brutal takeover tactics by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.".
- catalog extent "xviii, 194 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Cannery women, cannery lives.".
- catalog identifier "0826309887 (pbk.)".
- catalog identifier "0826310060".
- catalog identifier "9780585202808 (electronic bk.)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Cannery women, cannery lives.".
- catalog issued "1987".
- catalog issued "c1987.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press,".
- catalog relation "Cannery women, cannery lives.".
- catalog spatial "California".
- catalog spatial "California.".
- catalog subject "331.88/1640282/09794 19".
- catalog subject "Cannery workers Labor unions California History Case studies.".
- catalog subject "HD6515.F72 U547 1987".
- catalog subject "Mexican American labor union members California.".
- catalog subject "Mexican American women California History Case studies.".
- catalog subject "United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing, and Allied Workers of America History.".
- catalog subject "Women cannery workers California History Case studies.".
- catalog subject "Women labor union members California History Case studies.".
- catalog title "Cannery women, cannery lives : Mexican women, unionization, and the California food processing industry, 1930-1950 / Vicki L. Ruíz.".
- catalog type "Case studies. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".