- The Anarchist Collectives
Workers' Self-Management in the Spanish Revolution 1936-1939 Resource Type: Book Published: 1974 Examines the experiments in workers' self-management, both urban and rural, which took place in Spain during the revolution and Civil War.
- Beyond the Fields
Resource Type: Article Published: 2011 There is a strong historical link between the United Farm Workers in its heyday and myriad forms of progressive activism today. UFW alumni, ideas, and strategies have influenced Latino political empowerment, the immigrant rights movement, union membership growth, and on-going coalitions between labor, community, campus, and religious groups.
- Bracero History Archive
Resource Type: Database The Bracero History Archive collects and makes available the oral histories and artifacts pertaining to the Bracero program, a guest worker initiative that spanned the years 1942-1964. Millions of Mexican agricultural workers crossed the border under the program to work in more than half of the states in America.
- La Causa
The California Grape Strike Resource Type: Book Published: 1970 A documentary of the California grape workers' strike.
- Cesar Chavez, the United Farm Workers, and the Question of Unions in Contemporary Capitalism
Review of Frank Bardacke, Trampling Out The Vintage: Cesar Chavez and the Two Souls of the United Farm Workers Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 Bardacke tells the story of one movements evolution from grassroots obscurity to such (relatively little-known) successes as the Salinas Valley (California) general strike of lettuce pickers in 1979a veritable mass strike in Rosa Luxemburgs senseand from there to the collapsed shell of a union nonetheless administering fourteen non-profits with millions in assets.
- Chávez, César
Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article Mexican American farm worker, labour leader, and civil rights activist who, with Dolores Huerta, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers (UFW). (1927-1993).
- Common Sense for Hard Times
The Power of the Powerless to Cope with Everyday life and Transform Society in The Nineteen Seventies Resource Type: Book Published: 1976 Presents a vision of society as it is and as it could be. Putting the problems of contemporary daily life in historical perspective, it reveals that they have their roots in the way our society is organized, and thereby enables us to re-examine our own situation and experience.
- Connexions
Volume 6, Number 1 - February 1981 - Lesbians/Gay Men/Lesbiennes/Hommes Gais Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1981
- Connexions
Volume 6, Number 4 - November 1981 - Unorganized Workers/Travailleurs Non-Organises Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1981
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Volume 9, Number 1 - Spring 1984 - Energy - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1984
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Volume 9, Number 2 - Summer 1984 - Rights and Liberties - A Digest of Resources & Groups for Social Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1984
- Connexions Digest
Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1989
- Connexions Library: Agriculture and Farming Focus
Resource Type: Website Published: 2009 Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on farming and agriculture.
- Connexions Library: Labour and Unions Focus
Resource Type: Website Published: 2009 Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on labour and unions.
- Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt
Resource Type: Book Published: 2012 The searing account of Chris Hedges' and Joe Sacco's travels to sacrifice zones, those areas in the United States where human beings and the natural world are used and then discarded to maximize profit, places that have been offered up for maximum exploitation in the name of profit and progress.
- Delano grape strike
Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article A strike, boycott, and secondary boycott led by the United Farm Workers (UFW) against growers of table grapes in California.
- Denying health coverage to injured migrant workers is shameful
Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 Imagine getting injured at work, and instead of going to a hospital or seeing your health-care provider, you are deported from Canada.
- Epifanio Camacho: a Militant Farmworker Brushed Out of History
Resource Type: Article Published: 2019 Biographical info on Epifanio Camacho, a labor activist who fought alongside the less militant Cesar Chavez. He has been largely forgotten by history.
- Farming Freedom
Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 A simple agricultural technique could release farmers from the grip of agrochemical corporations. With no patents, no royalties and no licensing fees, this system just benefits the farmers.
- Farmworker Movement Documentation Project
The Farmworker Movement: 1962-1993: Primary source accounts by the UFW volunteers who built the movement Resource Type: Website The Farmworker Movement Documentation Project, founded in 2003 by LeRoy Chatfield, is a labor of love. The project seeks to compile and publish primary source accounts from the volunteers who worked with Cesar Chavez to build his farmworker movement during the period, 1962-1993.
- 50 Years Later, Protesters in Texas Reenact a Farmworker Strike That Is Scarcely Mentioned in History Books
Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 In the summer of 1966, hundreds of farm workers in Texas marched from Rio Grande City to Austin -- almost 500 miles over 90 days -- to demand change. They werent asking for anything fancy. They wanted better wages, restrooms and uncontaminated water for the people cultivating and picking melons and other crops. Now 50 years later, more than 100 people -- some who were at the original strike in Starr County -- are are marching again.
- Fill the gap: Ontario should insure injured migrant workers
Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 We want to sound the alarm over the unjust federal and provincial immigration and health policies that are based on the exploitation of human labour and xenophobia. Migrants increasingly enter Canada to work under temporary foreign worker programs through which they are denied equitable access to services while still being required to pay taxes.
- Food Chains
Resource Type: Film/Video Published: 2014 In this exposé, an intrepid group of Florida farmworkers battle to defeat the $4 trillion global supermarket industry through their ingenious Fair Food program, which partners with growers and retailers to improve working conditions for farm labourers in the United States.
- Foodies and farmworkers: Allies or enemies?
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 Fred Magdoff reviews Labor and the Locavore. Can the 'buy local food' movement support both sustainable farming and justice for farmworkers?
- Huerta, Dolores
Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article The co-founder of the United Farm Workers of America, AFL-CIO, and prominent member of the Democratic Socialists of America. (Born 1930).
- Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
Volume II: The Politics of Social Classes Resource Type: Book Published: 1978 Draper ranges through the development of the thought of Marx and Engels on the role of classes in society.
- Mapping UFW Strikes, Boycotts, and Farm Worker Actions 1965-1975
Resource Type: Unclassified When ethnic Mexican farm workers led by Cesar Chavez joined with Filipino American workers led by Larry Itliong in 1965 to strike grape growers in Delano, California, the modern farm workers movement was born. Operating initially as the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee and later as the UFW, the union spread beyond California as it launched a national grape boycott and inspired farm worker organizing in other states. Researched by Katie Anastas, these maps show the geography of UFW activism, locating more than 1,000 farm worker strikes, boycotts, and other actions.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 4
Marx and Engels 1844 - 1845 Resource Type: Book Published: 1845 Includes The Holy Family, or Critique of Critical Criticism, and The Condition of the Working-Class in England.
- Migrant farmworkers ask Trudeau for Permanent Residency in Canada as they announce caravan to Ottawa
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 Migrant farmworker group Justice for Migrant Workers is launching Harvesting Freedom, a year-long campaign for immigration status upon arrival for migrant farmworkers to mark the 50th anniversary of the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (SAWP).
- The Old Braceros Fight On
Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 Dozens of men assemble to remember their lives as contract guest workers in the United States and discuss the latest news or lack thereof in their decades-old movement to recover the 10 percent that was deducted from their paychecks and supposedly deposited in a savings account created for the return to Mexico under the old Bracero Program.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - September 24, 2015
Voter Suppression Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 2015 Featuring information and articles related to the October 19, 2015 Canadian election. The topic of the week is Voter Suppression, with articles about voter suppression in Canada and the United States.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 21, 2018
What are we eating? Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 2018 What are we eating? A simple question which opens up a labyrinth of devilishly complex issues about production and distribution, access to land, control of water, prices, health and safety, migrant labour, and much else. For millions of people, the answer is brutally simple: not enough to survive. UNICEF estimates that 300 million children go to bed hungry each night, and that more than 8,000 children under the age of five die of malnutrition every day. The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that 12% of the world's population is chronically malnourished. How is this possible in a world where there is an enormous surplus of food, where farmers are paid not to grow food? A short answer is that food production and distribution are driven by the need to make profits, rather than by human needs.
- Our Generation
Volume 9 Number 4 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1973
- Pesticides, Neoliberalism and the Politics of Acceptable Death
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 In 1900, cancer killed three people in America out of every hundred. Today, it's 33 out of every 100 -- more than one-in-four Americans die from cancer. These figures come from Dr. Joseph Weissman, a professor of medicine at UCLA. Weissman reckons that a fair slice of this explosion in cancer mortality can be laid at the door of petro-chemicals, particularly those used by the food industry.
- Pilbara strike of 1946
Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article A strike by Indigenous Australian pastoral workers in the Pilbara region of Western Australia for human rights recognition and payment of fair wages and working conditions.
- Promises......Promises
Resource Type: Article Published: 1981
- Scattered Sand
The Story of China's Rural Migrants Resource Type: Book Published: 2012 Each year, 200 million workers from Chinas vast rural interior travel between cities and provinces in search of employment: the largest human migration in history. This indispensable army of labour accounts for half of Chinas GDP, but is an unorganized workforce scattered sand, in Chinese parlance and the most marginalized and impoverished group of workers in the country.
- Sugar and Sugarworkers: A Popular Report of the International Sugarworkers Conference
Resource Type: Article Published: 1978
- United Farmworkers
Resource Type: Article Published: 1989
- US farm fatalities: An unpublicized epidemic
Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 Hundreds of agricultural workers, including many child labourers, die in farming accidents across the US each year. With an official workplace fatality rate of more than 21 per 100,000, farming is the most dangerous occupation in America. It is also among the lowest paid and least regulated.
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