Spiders in the house and workers in the field : Video interview transcript, 1971 Mar. 1.

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Spiders in the house and workers in the field : Video interview transcript, 1971 Mar. 1.

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Galarza discusses Mexican American labor history, leading up to Joseph DiGiorgio and the DiGiorgio Fruit Corporation and the union organizing and strike attempts in 1949-1950. He discusses the bracero program, illegal immigration of Mexicans, and the political maneuvering to break the strike.

23 p.

Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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Galarza, Ernesto, 1905-1984

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Mexican American author, historian and lecturer. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University. He was particularly interested in Mexican American farm labor. From the description of Spiders in the house and workers in the field : Video interview transcript, 1971 Mar. 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122500355 Ernesto Galarza, born 1905 in Jalcocotán, Nayarit, Mexico, was a labor organizer, labor historian, author, community organizer, bilingual educator, and university p...