Labor Militancy among Farm Workers and the Strategy of Protest: 1900-1979

Abstract

Despite nearly continuous poverty, farm workers in California during the past century organized unions and initiated strikes over control issues as well as wages. The control emphases contradicts the expectations of the dominant paradigm in labor relations, as well as Marxian perspectives which view control or qualitative issues as being concentrated among segments of the working class in advanced industrial sectors. It is proposed that the logic of the farm workers'situation in agriculture accounts for the continuity and pervasiveness of their control strikes. Because of the impermanence of wage gains alone, farm workers have had to seek control as a prerequisite to other changes in their conditions of life and work.

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