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Frank Bardacke Watsonville canneries strike records
Collection
Identifier: larc-ms-0093
Abstract
The Frank Bardacke Watsonville Canneries Strike Collection consists of materials collected by Bardacke, one of the founders of the Watsonville chapter of Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU) and a resident of that community since the early 1970s, who was actively involved with the support committee for the striking cannery workers. It is largely comprised of newspaper clippings, mainly from the Watsonville Register-Pajaronian, leaflets, and newsletters....
Dates:
1984-1989
Found in:
Labor Archives and Research Center
Gayanne Fietinghoff photographs and slides of California farmworkers collection
Collection
Identifier: larc-pho-0068
Abstract
This collection of photographs, slides, contact sheets, and negatives by United Farm Workers (UFW) staff photographer Gayanne Fietinghoff documents the work and home lives of California’s Central Valley farmworkers from 1972 to 1977. While employed by the UFW from 1972 to 1975, Fietinghoff trained her lens on the struggles of farmworkers, who were primarily Mexican American and Filipino American, working in the fields and participating in UFW activities and events. Fietinghoff captured UFW...
Dates:
1971-1982; Majority of material found within 1972-1977
Found in:
Labor Archives and Research Center
Hansel Mieth and Otto Hagel photograph collection
Collection
Identifier: larc-pho-0010
Abstract
Collection contains the photographs of Hansel Mieth (1909-1998) and Otto Hagel (1909-1973).
Dates:
1932-1969
Found in:
Labor Archives and Research Center
Edgar T. Monk scrapbooks
Collection
Identifier: larc-ms-0198
Abstract
Consists of three scrapbooks compiled by Edgar T. Monk; Volumes I and II relate to organizing California farmworkers in the mid 1970s, including the struggle between the Teamsters and the United Farmworkers (UFW), and the Gallo and Lucky Stores boycotts/campaigns. Volume III contains clippings from various mainstream and labor papers, including the East Bay Labor Journal and News and Views (published by the International...
Dates:
1967 - 1976; Majority of material found within 1973 - 1974
Found in:
Labor Archives and Research Center
John Sanchez oral history
Item
Identifier: larc-oh-sanchez
Abstract
Sound recording of interview with John Sanchez conducted by Harvey Schwartz. Former agricultural worker; recalls killing of unionists by growers in Pixley, California, during 1933 Central Valley cotton strike; describes harsh living and working conditions of Central Valley’s Mexican American cotton pickers, 1930s, and impact of mechanization, 1938-1941.
Dates:
1998 March 31
Found in:
Labor Archives and Research Center
Elizabeth Schilling Watsonville canneries strike collection
Collection
Identifier: larc-ms-0428
Abstract
This collection includes materials collected and produced by journalist Elizabeth Schilling in the course of researching and reporting on the Watsonville canneries strike between 1985 and 1988. Materials include Schilling's research and interview notes; newspaper clippings documenting the strike and its aftermath; flyers, leaflets, newsletters, and press releases from Teamsters Local 912, Teamsters for a Democratic Union, Shaw's, Watsonville Canning and Frozen Foods Co, and community...
Dates:
1985-1988, 2017
Found in:
Labor Archives and Research Center
Peter Shapiro Watsonville Canneries Strike Interviews
Collection
Identifier: larc-oh-shapiro
Dates:
2009-2014
Found in:
Labor Archives and Research Center
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- Agricultural laborers -- California. 3
- Cannery workers -- California -- Watsonville. 3
- Cannery workers -- Labor unions. 3
- Strikes and lockouts -- Agricultural laborers -- California -- Watsonville. 3
- Strikes and lockouts -- Agricultural processing industries -- California -- Watsonville. 3
- Watsonville (Calif.) 3
- Photographs. 2
- Strikes and lockouts -- Agricultural laborers -- California 2
- Agricultural laborers -- California -- Photographs. 1
- Agricultural laborers -- California -- San Joachin Valley. 1
- Agricultural laborers' unions -- California. 1
- Audiocassettes. 1
- Civil rights demonstrations -- Photographs. 1
- Contact sheets. 1
- Cotton Pickers -- Photographs. 1
- Demonstrations -- California. 1
- Filipino American migrant agricultural laborers -- California. 1
- Mexican American migrant agricultural laborers -- California. 1
- Mexican American women labor union members -- California -- Watsonville. 1
- Migrant labor -- California -- San Joachin Valley. 1
- Migrant labor -- California. 1
- Migrant labor -- Photographs. 1
- Negatives. 1
- Oral histories. 1
- Photojournalism. 1
- Pomo Indians -- California -- Photographs. 1
- Slides. 1
- Stevedores -- California -- San Francisco -- Photographs. 1
- Strikes and lockouts -- Agricultural laborers -- California -- Photographs. 1
- Strikes and lockouts -- California. 1
- Women blue collar workers 1
- Women cannery workers. 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- California. 1 ∧ less
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- Bardacke, Frank 1
- Bridges, Harry 1
- Chavez, Cesar, 1927-1993. 1
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