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Author Sifuentez, Mario Jimenez, 1979- author.

Title Of forests and fields : Mexican labor in the Pacific Northwest / Mario Jimenez Sifuentez
Published New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (x, 169 pages) : illustrations
Series Latinidad : transnational cultures in the United States
Latinidad.
Contents Many miles from home : the bracero program in the Pacific Northwest -- Los Tejanos : the Texas-Mexican diaspora in Oregon -- The genesis of the Willamette Valley Immigration Project -- Whip that hoedad in the ground : undocumented workers in the national forests -- "Now I can hold my own with anybody" : IRCA, immigrant organizing, and the Pineros y Campesinos Unidos Noroeste (PCUN) -- Huelga! : PCUN and organizing farm workers in the Willamette Valley -- Epilogue: La lucha sigue
Summary "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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject PCUN -- History
SUBJECT PCUN fast
Subject 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
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Hispanic American Studies.
Agricultural laborers -- Labor unions
Economic history
Ethnic relations
Foreign workers, Mexican
Immigrants
Mexican Americans
Mexicans
Migrant agricultural laborers
Working class
SUBJECT Northwest, Pacific -- Economic conditions
Northwest, Pacific -- Ethnic relations
Subject Pacific Northwest
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780813576923
081357692X