Labor and Community: Mexican Citrus Worker Villages in a Southern California County, 1900-1950 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780252063886)

The emergence, maturity, and decline of the southern California citrus industry is seen here through the network of citrus worker villages that dotted part of the state's landscape from 1910 to 1960. Labor and Community shows how Mexican immigrants shaped a partially independent existence within a fiercely hierarchical framework of economic and political relationships. Gonz lez relies on a variety of published sources and interviews with longtime residents to detail the education of village children; the Americanization of village adults; unionization and strikes; and the decline of the citrus picker village and rise of the urban barrio. His insightful study of the rural dimensions of Mexican-American life prior to World War II adds balance to a long-standing urban bias in Chicano historiography.


Author: Gilbert G. Gonzalez
ISBN-10: 0252063880
ISBN-13: 9780252063886
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Language: English
Published: 09/01/1994
Pages: 280
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.93lbs
Size: 8.99h x 6.05w x 0.82d