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Subject:: Emigration and immigration; Agricultural laborers; Strikes and lockouts; Teamsters; United Farm Workers
Extent:: 7 p.

Abstract:: There is growing international demand for US farm production, bringing pressure to relax government control over agriculture. The EEC's protectionist policy keeps U.S. prices above world price in order to support American farmers. Due to this higher demand, traditional family farms are forced to expand or be replaced by large-scale mechanized corporate farms with small workforces.

"Agriculture: biggest growth industry in the U.S." Educating Change. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:105173/

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Educating Change

Powerfully illustrated through the lives of three Mexican/Chicana women - Ramona Medina, Socorro Gomez-Potter, and Yolanda Almaraz-Esquivel - "Educating Change: Latina Activism and the Struggle for Educational Equity" documents a history of Mexican women's migration and activism, and considers its …
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