{"product_id":"curious-unions-frank-p-barajas-9781496229038","title":"Curious Unions: Mexican American Workers and Resistance in Oxnard, California, 1898-1961","description":"\u003cp\u003eC駸ar E. Ch疱ez came to Oxnard, California, in 1958, twenty years after he lived briefly in the city as a child with his migrant farmworker family during the Great Depression. This time Ch疱ez returned as the organizer of the Community Service Organization to support the unionization campaign of the United Packinghouse Workers of America. Together the two groups challenged the agricultural industry's use of braceros (imported contract laborers) that displaced resident farmworkers. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The Mexican and Mexican American populations in Oxnard were involved in cultural struggles and negotiations long before Ch疱ez led them in marches and active protests. \u003ci\u003eCurious Unions\u003c\/i\u003e explores the ways in which the Mexican community forged intriguing partnerships with other ethnic groups within Oxnard in the first half of the twentieth century and the resulting economic exchanges, cultural practices, and labor and community activism. Frank P. Barajas examines how the Oxnard ethnic Mexican population exercised its agency in alliance with other groups and organizations to meet their needs before large-scale protests and labor unions were engaged. \u003ci\u003eCurious Unions\u003c\/i\u003e charts how the cultural negotiations that took place in the Oxnard ethnic Mexican community helped shape and empower farm labor organizing. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Frank P. Barajas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1496229037\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781496229038\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 374\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.21lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.83d","brand":"Frank P. Barajas","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43988485275903,"sku":"9781496229038","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a769d0e7-25a9-4e02-83f3-8ca15c1452aa.jpg?v=1683294741","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/curious-unions-frank-p-barajas-9781496229038","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}