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Cotton and Class in California
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Radical History Review (1996) 1996 (65): 148–151.
Published: 01 May 1996
... to pick cotton, growers repeatedly opposed
federal immigration restrictions to assure themselves a plentiful
supply of cheap and unorganized workers. Labor contractors, work
camps, company stores, and de facto segregation kept workers put,
toiling under intolerable conditions and living...
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Capturing Capitalism’s Work: Competing Photo-Narratives of the Bracero Program
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Radical History Review (2018) 2018 (132): 126–143.
Published: 01 October 2018
...—thus the exploitation —and underscores the reality that braceros were captive workers whose wages often went unpaid, expropriating them of their labor-power. 7 Braceros had little control over where they worked and relied on growers for lodging and provisions. The threat of deportation...
FIGURES
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Remembering Cesar
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Radical History Review (1994) 1994 (58): 142–150.
Published: 01 January 1994
.... Still, he made himself into a labor organizer, founding, in
1962, the association which later became the United Farm Workers
REMEMBERING CESAR /145
of America. In 1965, the union struck table grape growers in the San
Joaquin Valley, a key part...
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Remembering Cesar
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Radical History Review (1994) 1994 (58): 143–150.
Published: 01 January 1994
.... Still, he made himself into a labor organizer, founding, in
1962, the association which later became the United Farm Workers
REMEMBERING CESAR /145
of America. In 1965, the union struck table grape growers in the San
Joaquin Valley, a key part...
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Dangerous Dependence or Productive Masculinity?: Gendered Representations of Puerto Ricans in the US Press, 1940–50
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Radical History Review (2017) 2017 (128): 173–198.
Published: 01 May 2017
... Masculinity? 183
Indeed, throughout the late 1940s the Puerto Rican Department of Labor
launched a concerted campaign to convince US grower associations to hire Puerto
Ricans instead of other “foreign nationals.” Thwarted in their efforts to compete
with the Mexican government’s Bracero...
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The Limits of Chemical Control in the Caribbean Sugar Factory
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Radical History Review (2017) 2017 (127): 39–61.
Published: 01 January 2017
... was fundamentally indistinguishable. “For both
sugar-grower and refiner the aim is the most,” he wrote,
the most cane, the most juice, the most bagasse, the most evaporating-pans,
the most centrifugals, the highest crystallization, the most sacks, and the
most indifference as to quality for the sake...
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IV. The War at Home (Abroad)
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Radical History Review (1994) 1994 (60): 164–181.
Published: 01 October 1994
...-OBITUARIES FOR RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON/173
himself pressured the NLRB to stop the UFW grape boycott. When
that failed, Nixon officials brought together the Teamsters and the
growers to sign sweetheart contracts to undercut the UFW. Grower
violence that killed farm worker Juan de la Cruz and injured...
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The Abusable Past
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Radical History Review (2000) 2000 (76): 245–248.
Published: 01 January 2000
...
growers, heroin manufacturers, and cocaine smugglers in Sicily, Mar-
seille, Afghanistan, Turkey, Southeast Asia, and South America since
the end of the Second World War.
On the other hand, the museum features the carefully reconstructed
storefronts of a 1940s drug store, a 1960s head shop...
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Rebellion and Culture
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Radical History Review (1996) 1996 (65): 159–163.
Published: 01 May 1996
... larger estates, often with more than three hundred slaves,
and absentee ownership.
At the same time that planters treated slaves ever more as means of
production rather than as minors in extended families, the growers
celebrated ”the superiority of British institutions, and of British prac...
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The Abusable Past
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Radical History Review (1996) 1996 (65): 174–178.
Published: 01 May 1996
... unless the venerable Dr.
Isom can pull a network deal or a sneaker contract out of his lab coat,
this may very well be his last year at the top of the list.
WAS THAT MEMORY LANE OR ABBEY ROAD?
”Historians,” Eric Hobsbawm once wrote, “are to nationalism what
poppy-growers in Pakistan...
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Man of Sorrows in Folsom
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Radical History Review (2007) 2007 (98): 119–135.
Published: 01 May 2007
... they give you at church, of Jesus Christ on one
side. . . . They came and grabbed the cards and they thought I was handing
out “Communist stuff,” they said. I didn’t know what they were talking about
and I still don’t, except that you can figure it out: the growers don’t want us to
become part...
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Behind the Veil
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Radical History Review (2007) 2007 (97): 110–117.
Published: 01 January 2007
... because they were
identified as troublemakers by large growers. African Americans who challenged
white economic domination in rural Florida too vigorously did so at the risk of their
lives. Andrews noted: “This was dangerous. Black folks as far as they thought wasn’t
supposed to talk back...
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Transformations through Teatro : Culture Clash in a Chicana/o History Classroom
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Radical History Review (2008) 2008 (102): 111–130.
Published: 01 October 2008
... wrote and improvised actos, or one-act plays, “to educate and entertain,
exposing issues and offering possible solutions.”17 With a humorous combination of
physical comedy, satire, Spanish, and English, the actos ridiculed greedy growers
and persuaded farmworkers to unionize. Actors often...
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Where was the Periphery?: The Wider World and the Core of the World-Economy
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Radical History Review (1987) 1987 (39): 28–48.
Published: 01 October 1987
... in converting to the export of such commodities as palm oil,
groundnuts, ivory, rubber, beeswax, coffee, cloves and hides. Speak-
ing about the groundnut growers in West Africa, but in a comment that
might equally be applied to cultivators throughout the continent,
George Brooks observes...
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Repeating Islands of Debt: Historicizing the Transcolonial Relationality of Puerto Rico's Economic Crisis
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Radical History Review (2017) 2017 (128): 91–119.
Published: 01 May 2017
... tilted the scales of the market in favor of connected US busi-
nesses in these other colonial locations.41 Also, competition between sugar manufac-
turers on the mainland and cane sugar manufacturers in the overseas colonies led
to an aggressive push by stateside growers to farm beets in uncultivated...
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Coerced Consumption in Colonial Bolivia and Guatemala
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Radical History Review (1983) 1983 (27): 49–78.
Published: 01 January 1983
... or
cochineal from growers elsewhere. After transporting these commodi-
ties to distant ports or markets, they were compelled to accept
whatever price their governors offered and then to buy back (at a
COERCED CONSUMPTION 63
premium) their own means of subsistence...
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Neoliberalism, Historiography, Identity Politics: Toward a New Historiography of Latino Theater
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Radical History Review (2012) 2012 (112): 162–172.
Published: 01 January 2012
... the story of Rey-
mundo Mata, who begins the play as an adulterer cynically manipulating his fellow
Chicanos for profit and ends it as a victim of the murderous intent of growers who
see their well-being threatened by the United Farm Workers and César Chávez. At
the moment when Mata begins to believe...
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Joining Forces: Prisons and Environmental Justice in Recent California Organizing
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Radical History Review (2006) 2006 (96): 95–111.
Published: 01 October 2006
... for Valley agribusiness.
Growers have fought to maintain a workforce forced to accept low wages. When the
workers contest their own poisoning through pesticide drift or the contamination of
drinking water with agricultural chemicals they face severe repression.
The Valley’s farmworker...
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Recent Developments in Transnational Environmental History: Labor, Settler Communities, and Comparative Histories
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Radical History Review (2010) 2010 (107): 195–208.
Published: 01 May 2010
... (especially sheep and
goats), wheat, vineyards, olive orchards, and other tree crops. These Mediterranean
“civilizational crops” (11) became more commercially produced by growers for an
expanding export market to other parts of Europe, while commodities like sugar
and cotton (and later tobacco) became...
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We Make the Road by Riding ( Se Hace el Camino al Viajar ): Stories from a Journal of the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride—Portland to New York, September 23 to October 4, 2003
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Radical History Review (2005) 2005 (93): 200–216.
Published: 01 October 2005
... from a conveyor belt
on top of the harvester, in the dust, under the blistering sun, for $5.15 an hour,
the federal minimum age. I am sure the potato growers would pay her less if they
could.
I want you to be there with me. The room still...
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