Continuing La Causa : Organizing Labor in California's Strawberry Fields.

Intro -- Series page -- Title page -- copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- ch1-The United Farm Workers -- ch2-The Drive to Organize -- A Rocky Path to Unionization -- Geography and Social Ethos -- Understanding the UFW Strawberry Campaign -- Networks, Organizations, and Institutions: A Theoretical Foundation -- ch3-The Strawberry Industr4y Campaign -- The Political Economy of Agriculture -- The Role of Labor in Agriculture -- The Strawberry Campaign in Detail -- ch4-Immigrant Networks -- Social Network Theory -- Social Networks and Economic Behavior -- Social Networks and the Organization of Production -- Caciques and Kin -- ch5-Institutional Inclusion and the Organization of Dissent -- An Office, a Phone, and a P.O. Box -- Dissent in Organizational Society -- The Comité's Emergence and Attempt to Formalize -- The UFW -- Coastal Berry -- Struggling to Bureaucratize -- Learning the Rules of the Game -- ch6-The Triumph of Effective Bureaucracy -- The Political and Legal Campaign -- The Corporate Campaign -- The Grassroots Campaign -- The Paradox of Farm Labor Organizing -- ch7-Contexts for Success and Failure -- Playing the Game -- Organizational Fields -- Institutions -- The UFW and the ALRA -- Mexican American Political Advocacy in California and the Southwest -- Farm Labor Mobilization in California -- The Emergence of the UFW -- Ethnic Identity and Mobilization -- ch8-Incorporating Immigrants into an Organization Society -- The UFW's Organizational Structure and Identity -- A New UFW under Rodriguez -- Looking Ahead: Political Action, Fieldwork, or Both? -- Appendix A: A Note on Methodology -- Appendix B: A Timeline of Events: The UFW and Coastal Berry 1993-2004 -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Book.

Gilbert Mireles explores the legendary United Farm Workers' campaign to organize laborers-predominantly Latino immigrants-in California's strawberry industry. Tracing the UFW's actions from the picking fields to the world of government offices and corporate boardrooms, Mireles shows how the very traits that made the union such a successful advocate for farm workers also inhibited the meaningful participation of those same workers in the union. His systematic analysis of one of the most influential social movements in the country points to troubling implications for the place of immigrants-and the role of civil society and participatory democracy-in US society.

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