TY - BOOK AU - Galarza,Ernesto AU - Torres,Rodolfo AU - Ibarra,Armando TI - Man of Fire: Selected Writings T2 - Working Class in American History Series SN - 9780252094934 AV - E184 U1 - 305.86872073 PY - 2013/// CY - Champaign PB - University of Illinois Press KW - Mexican Americans - Social conditions - 20th century KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Organization of the Book -- Part 1: Coming of Age in a Class Society -- In a Mountain Village -- On the Edge of the Barrio -- Part 2: Mexican Labor, Migration, and the American Empire -- Life in the United States for Mexican People: Out of the Experience of a Mexican -- Program for Action -- California the Uncommonwealth -- Part 3: Action Research in Defense of the Barrio -- Personal Manifesto -- The Reason Why: Lessons in Cartography -- Economic Development by Mexican-Americans in Oakland, California -- Alviso: The Crisis of a Barrio -- Part 4: Power, Culture, and History -- Mexicans in the Southwest: A Culture in Process -- The Mexican-American Migrant Worker-Culture and Powerlessness -- How the Anglo Manipulates the Mexican-American -- Part 5: Organizing against Capital -- Labor Organizing Strategies, 1930-1970 -- Poverty in the Valley of Plenty: A Report on the Di Giorgio Strike -- Plantation Workers in Louisiana -- The Farm Laborer: His Economic and Social Outlook -- Strangers in Our Fields -- Part 6: Letters from an Activist -- To Alfred Blackman, California Division of Industrial Safety, June 20, 1957. -- To Congressman James Roosevelt, December 20, 1957 -- Open letter to Members of the House of Representatives, co-signed by NAWU President H. L. Mitchell -- To Henry P. Anderson, April 2, 1958 -- To Henry P. Anderson, April 30, 1958 -- Letter to Henry P. Anderson, June 24, 1958. -- To Jack Livingston, AFL-CIO Department of Organization, and Norman Smith, AFL-CIO Organizer, May 5 -- To Norman Smith, December 5, 1959 -- To "Liberal Friends who live in the East," March 18, 1960 -- Part 7: Appendix -- Vale más la Revolución que viene -- Selected Bibliography -- Select Chronology -- Index UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3414282 ER -