View in EDS PDF Full Text ePub Full Text

Curious Unions : Mexican American Workers and Resistance in Oxnard, California, 1898–1961

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Title: Curious Unions : Mexican American Workers and Resistance in Oxnard, California, 1898–1961
Description: César E. Chávez came to Oxnard, California, in 1958, twenty years after he lived briefly in the city as a child with his migrant farmworker family during the Great Depression. This time Chávez returned as the organizer of the Community Service Organization to support the unionization campaign of the United Packinghouse Workers of America. Together the two groups challenged the agricultural industry's use of braceros (imported contract laborers) who displaced resident farmworkers.The Mexican and Mexican American populations in Oxnard were involved in cultural struggles and negotiations long before Chávez led them in marches and active protests. Curious Unions explores the ways in which the Mexican community forged intriguing partnerships with other ethnic groups within Oxnard in the first half of the twentieth century and the resulting economic exchanges, cultural practices, and labor and community activism. Frank P. Barajas examines how the Oxnard ethnic Mexican population exercised its agency in alliance with other groups and organizations to meet their needs before large-scale protests and labor unions were engaged. Curious Unions charts how the cultural negotiations that took place in the Oxnard ethnic Mexican community helped shape and empower farm labor organizing.
Authors: Frank P. Barajas
Resource Type: eBook.
Subjects: Mexican Americans--Cultural assimilation--California--Oxnard--History, Foreign workers, Mexican--California--Oxnard--History, Mexican Americans--Civil rights--California--Oxnard--History, Labor movement--California--Oxnard--History
Categories: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / American / Hispanic & Latino Studies, HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
Database: eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
FullText Links:
  – Type: ebook-pdf
  – Type: ebook-epub
Text:
  Availability: 0
Header DbId: nlebk
DbLabel: eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
An: 495501
RelevancyScore: 1044
AccessLevel: 6
PubType: eBook
PubTypeId: ebook
PreciseRelevancyScore: 1044.26904296875
IllustrationInfo
ImageInfo – Size: thumb
  Target: https://rps2images.ebscohost.com/rpsweb/othumb?id=NL$495501$PDF&s=r
– Size: medium
  Target: https://rps2images.ebscohost.com/rpsweb/othumb?id=NL$495501$PDF&s=d
Items – Name: Title
  Label: Title
  Group: Ti
  Data: Curious Unions : Mexican American Workers and Resistance in Oxnard, California, 1898–1961
– Name: Abstract
  Label: Description
  Group: Ab
  Data: César E. Chávez came to Oxnard, California, in 1958, twenty years after he lived briefly in the city as a child with his migrant farmworker family during the Great Depression. This time Chávez returned as the organizer of the Community Service Organization to support the unionization campaign of the United Packinghouse Workers of America. Together the two groups challenged the agricultural industry's use of braceros (imported contract laborers) who displaced resident farmworkers.The Mexican and Mexican American populations in Oxnard were involved in cultural struggles and negotiations long before Chávez led them in marches and active protests. Curious Unions explores the ways in which the Mexican community forged intriguing partnerships with other ethnic groups within Oxnard in the first half of the twentieth century and the resulting economic exchanges, cultural practices, and labor and community activism. Frank P. Barajas examines how the Oxnard ethnic Mexican population exercised its agency in alliance with other groups and organizations to meet their needs before large-scale protests and labor unions were engaged. Curious Unions charts how the cultural negotiations that took place in the Oxnard ethnic Mexican community helped shape and empower farm labor organizing.
– Name: Author
  Label: Authors
  Group: Au
  Data: <searchLink fieldCode="AR" term="%22Frank+P%2E+Barajas%22">Frank P. Barajas</searchLink>
– Name: TypePub
  Label: Resource Type
  Group: TypPub
  Data: eBook.
– Name: Subject
  Label: Subjects
  Group: Su
  Data: <searchLink fieldCode="DE" term="%22Mexican+Americans--Cultural+assimilation--California--Oxnard--History%22">Mexican Americans--Cultural assimilation--California--Oxnard--History</searchLink><br /><searchLink fieldCode="DE" term="%22Foreign+workers%2C+Mexican--California--Oxnard--History%22">Foreign workers, Mexican--California--Oxnard--History</searchLink><br /><searchLink fieldCode="DE" term="%22Mexican+Americans--Civil+rights--California--Oxnard--History%22">Mexican Americans--Civil rights--California--Oxnard--History</searchLink><br /><searchLink fieldCode="DE" term="%22Labor+movement--California--Oxnard--History%22">Labor movement--California--Oxnard--History</searchLink>
– Name: SubjectBISAC
  Label: Categories
  Group: Su
  Data: <searchLink fieldCode="ZK" term="%22SOCIAL+SCIENCE+%2F+Cultural+%26+Ethnic+Studies+%2F+American+%2F+Hispanic+%26+Latino+Studies%22">SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / American / Hispanic & Latino Studies</searchLink><br /><searchLink fieldCode="ZK" term="%22HISTORY+%2F+United+States+%2F+State+%26+Local+%2F+West+%28AK%2C+CA%2C+CO%2C+HI%2C+ID%2C+MT%2C+NV%2C+UT%2C+WY%29%22">HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)</searchLink>
PLink https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=nlebk&AN=495501
RecordInfo BibRecord:
  BibEntity:
    Classifications:
      – Code: 331.6368079492
        Scheme: ddc
        Type: prePub
    Languages:
      – Code: eng
        Text: English
    Subjects:
      – SubjectFull: Mexican Americans--Cultural assimilation--California--Oxnard--History
        Type: general
      – SubjectFull: Foreign workers, Mexican--California--Oxnard--History
        Type: general
      – SubjectFull: Mexican Americans--Civil rights--California--Oxnard--History
        Type: general
      – SubjectFull: Labor movement--California--Oxnard--History
        Type: general
    Titles:
      – TitleFull: Curious Unions : Mexican American Workers and Resistance in Oxnard, California, 1898–1961
        Type: main
  BibRelationships:
    HasContributorRelationships:
      – PersonEntity:
          Name:
            NameFull: Frank P. Barajas
      – PersonEntity:
          Name:
            NameFull: Frank P. Barajas
    IsPartOfRelationships:
      – BibEntity:
          Dates:
            – D: 01
              M: 01
              Type: published
              Y: 2012
            – D: 04
              M: 02
              Type: profile
              Y: 2014
          Identifiers:
            – Type: isbn-print
              Value: 9780803237919
            – Type: isbn-electronic
              Value: 9780803244733
            – Type: isbn-electronic
              Value: 9781496230348
          Titles:
            – TitleFull: Curious Unions : Mexican American Workers and Resistance in Oxnard, California, 1898–1961
              Type: main
ResultId 1