Labor and Community: Mexican Citrus Worker Villages in a Southern California County, 1900-1950

by Gilbert G. González

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252063880
• ISBN13: 9780252063886
• Release Date: September 1994
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"