Review: Cesar Chavez, the United Farm Workers, and the Question of Unions in Contemporary Capitalism
Loren Goldner's extensive review and analysis of Frank Bardacke. Trampling Out The Vintage. Cesar Chavez and the Two Souls of the United Farm Workers (Verso).
Violence in the 1979 Imperial Valley Lettuce strike
LA Times article from 1986 discussing the court hearings about violence deployed during the Imperial Valley lettuce strike 1979. The article is not sympathetic to the workers, but contains information not easily found elsewhere.
Lettuce Strike Apparently Succeeding Despite Odds
Washington Post article from 5th February 1979 on the Imperial Valley Lettuce Strike
Bloody fight in lettuce fields
Chicago Tribune article on from February 25th 1979 on the Imperial Valley Lettuce Strike.
Feb 26th 1979 report on the Imperial Valley lettuce strike
Article published in the New York Times with the headlineLettuce Strike Crippling 40% of California Output
Account on the conditions leading up to the 1979 Imperial Valley Lettuce Strike
An account by a farm worker on industrial background to the Imperial Valley California lettuce workers strike of 1979. Written for the National Ministry of Farm Workers.
United Farm Workers' rank and file
Submitted by wojtek on Jun 7 2012 12:16
A podcast on the UFW's rank and file from Pacifica Radio's "Against the Grain" with Frank Bardacke, former farm worker and author of 'Trampling Out the Vintage: Cesar Chavez and the Two Souls of the United Farm Workers'.
