Organizing Puerto Rican Migrant Farmworkers: The Experience of Puerto Ricans in New Jersey (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780820405827)

This book discusses and examines the organizational effectiveness of CATA (Comité de Apoyo a Trabajadores Agrícolas), a Puerto Rican Migrant Farmworkers organization, in New Jersey. It focuses on the relationship between change in organizational structure and effectiveness of the Puerto Rican Migrant Farmworkers movement as it underwent development. The author concludes that the Puerto Rican migrant farmworkers organizing movement is characterized as a migrant farmworker proletarian formation. The movement has historically shown conflict between democracy and centralism, theory and practice, and nationalism and paternalism.
This study serves as a successful model for organizing migrant farmworkers in this country.

Author: Gloria Bonilla-Santiago
ISBN-10: 0820405825
ISBN-13: 9780820405827
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Language: English
Published: 11/01/1988
Pages: 260
Format: Hardcover