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UNIONISM AND COLLECTIVE BARGAINING FOR AGRICULTURAL WORKERS

A Selective Bibliography

Introduction

This bibliography is selective. Citations from weekly news magazines are for the most part excluded, excepting those frequently listed in the various sources. Although some entries date as far back as 1910, the major emphasis is on materials published in recent years. Items readily available to the bibliographer received annotations. The absence of annotation does not imply lesser importance or value of an entry.

Sources used to compile the bibliography include the files of the Congressional Research Service, the card catalog of the Library of Congress, and standard periodical indexes such as Public Affairs Information Service Index, the Index of Legal Periodicals, Business Periodicals Index, and Biological and Agricultural Index. These sources were searched through April 1971. The researcher can expeditiously update this work by using the above indices for periods

after April 1971 and looking under the following headings.

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Library of Congress call numbers are given for those books and government publications listed in the Library's card catalog.

Several organizations and agencies having interests in agricultural labor and farmworker unions provide the researcher additional sources

of information:

National Advisory Committee on Farm Labor and National

Sharecroppers Funds

112 East 19th Street

New York, New York 10003

This Committee is a non-profit voluntary agency of private citizens

whose aim is to improve conditions for farm workers.

National Agricultural Library

Agriculture Department

Washington, D.C. 20250

United Farm Workers Organizing Committee

AFL-CIO

Box 130

Delano, California

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UNIONISM AND COLLECTIVE BARGAINING FOR AGRICULTURAL WORKERS

A Selective Bibliography

Bibliographies

Cameron, Colin, and Jo Anne Edelson. Farm labor organizing. Madison, University of Wisconsin, December 1969.

62 p.

An extensively annotated bibliography covering

many more topics than only farm labor organizing.

Fodell, Beverly. Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers. Detroit, Wayne State University, January 1970. 26 p.

Fujimoto, Isao, and Jo Clare Schieffer. Guide to the sources on
agricultural labor. Davis, University of California, 1969.
Lists many particularly hard-to-find materials such

as newsletters, handouts, handbills etc. A special section
highlights the books of the past thirty years on the subject
of agricultural workers, and another gives the major listings
of U.S. Department of Agriculture bibliographies.

Princeton University, Industrial Relations Section. Collective bargaining in agriculture. Princeton, Princeton University, 1969. 4 p.

An annotated bibliography.

42 P.

Schlebecker, John T. ed. Bibliography of books and pamphlets on the
history of agriculture in the United States, 1607 1967. Santa
Barbara, Clio Press, 1969. 183 p.
Z 5075. U5S28

Includes fiction and nonfiction materials. Published
under contract with the Smithsonian Institution. Has sub-
ject, title, and author/indexes with more than 4,000
entries. Many citations are annotated.

Slobodek, Mitchell. A selective bibliography of California labor history. Los Angeles, University of California, 1964.

265 p.

Z 7164.T7S58

Section on agriculture, pp. 17-34, partially

annotated.

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Books and Pamphlets

Allen, Steve. The ground is our table. New York, Doubleday, 1966.
141 P.
HD 1525.A6
Plight of migrant farm workers in the Southwest.

Bishop, Charles E. ed. Farm labor in the United States. New York,
Columbia University Press, 1967. 143 p.
HD 1525.B5

Day, Mark. Forty acres. New York, Praeger, 1971.

222 p.

Discusses Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers
Organizing Committee (UFWOC)

De Toledano, Ralph. Little Cesar [Washington, D.C.] Anthem [1971]
Presents an unfavorable view of Cesar Chavez and
the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC)

Dunne, John Gregory.

1967. 176 p.

Delano. New York; Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
HD 5325.A 29D8

Fisher, Lloyd H. The harvest labor market in California.
Harvard University Press, 1953. 183 p.

Cambridge,

HD 1527.C2F5

Flores, Xavier. Agricultural organizations and economic development and social development in rural areas. Geneva, International Labour Office, 1971.

586 P.

Section on U.S. agriculture pp. 503-525.

Galarza, Ernesto. Merchants of labor; the Mexican bracero system.
Charlotte, California, McNally and Loftin, 1964. 284 p.

HD 1527.C2G3

An account of the managed migration of Mexican

farm workers in California, 1942-1960.

Spiders in the house and workers in the field. Notre Dame,
University of Nortre Dame Press, 1970. 306 p. KF 228.D5G3
The story of "the decade long effort of the

National Agricultural Workers Union to organize farm
labor and the spiderlike intrigues which frustrated it"

Heaps, Willard A. Wandering workers; the story of American farm workers and their problems. New York, Crown, 1968. 192 p.

HD 1525.H44

Examines, chiefly through interviews with migrant workers, their problems of employment, housing, etc.

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Jamieson, Stuart. Labor unionism in American agriculture.
U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1945. 457 p.

Washington,

HD 8051.A62 no. 836

An invaluable source on the original development problems and accomplishments of unionism among farm workers.

London, Joan, and Henry Anderson.
Crowell, 1971.

208 p.

So shall ye reap. New York,

HD 6515.A292C5

The story of the long effort of agricultural workers in California to organize themselves into associations and unions.

Matthiessen, Peter. Sal si puedes: Cesar Chavez and the new American revolution. New York, Random House, 1969. 372 p. F866.2.C5M3

McWilliams, Carey. Brothers under the skin. Boston, Little Brown, 1939. 325 p. E 184.Alm19

Factories in the field; the story of migratory farm labor in
California. Boston, Little Brown, 1944. 334 p. HD 1527.C2M25
Discusses the exploitation of farm labor and why
farming has been replaced by industrialized agriculture.

Ill fares the land; migrants and migratory labor in the United
States. Boston, Little Brown, 1942.
419 p.
HD 1525.M35

North from Mexico. Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1961. 324 p.
F 786.M215

Morin, Alexander. The organizability of farm labor in the United
States. Cambridge, Harvard University press, 1952. 102 p.
HD 6515.A292U6

Myers, Robin.

The position of farm workers in federal and state legislation. New York, National Advisory Committee on Farm Labor, 1959.

51 P.

Law

Includes a section on collective bargaining.
Has notes and bibliography.

National Advisory Committee on Farm Labor. Farm labor organizing, 1905-1967. New York, 1967.

68 p.

A valuable and concise booklet with chapters on the history of the movement in California and Hawaii, the Southern Tenant Farmers Union, and developments in the 60's. A list of places to write and things to do in order to influence farm labor change is provided.

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