Strikes and lockouts -- Agricultural laborers -- California
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
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
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