Labor Militancy among Farm Workers and the Strategy of Protest
1900-1979
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2484282 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Linda C Majka (University of Dayton, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1981 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 533-547 |
| Publication date | 1981-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Problems (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-7791 • E-ISSN: 1533-8533 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/800229 |
| OpenAlex | W2051983633 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 16 |
Despite nearly continuous poverty, farm workers in California during the past century organized unions and initiated strikes over control issues as well as wages. The control emphases contradicts the expectations of the dominant paradigm in labor relations, as well as Marxian perspectives which view control or qualitative issues as being concentrated among segments of the working class in advanced industrial sectors. It is proposed that the logic of the farm workers'situation in agriculture accounts for the continuity and pervasiveness of their control strikes. Because of the impermanence of wage gains alone, farm workers have had to seek control as a prerequisite to other changes in their conditions of life and work
Agriculture · Archaeology · Control (management) · Criminology · Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Farm workers · Impermanence · Labour economics · Management · Political economy · Political science · Poverty · Sociology · Wage · Working class · Anarchism and Radical Politics · History · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Political Economy and Marxism · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
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Forty Acres
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,19 |
| Citation span | 1983 - 2016 (34) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |