Promise Unfulfilled

by Philip L. Martin

Book Overview

In 1975, after vigorous campaigning by the United Farm Workers union, the state of California passed the Agricultural Labor Relations Act (ALRA), a pioneering self-help strategy granting farm workers the right to organize into unions. A quarter century later, only a tiny percentage of farm workers in the state belong to unions, and wages remain less than half of those of nonfarm employees. Why did the ALRA fail? One of the nation's foremost authorities...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801488753
• ISBN13: 9780801488757
• Release Date: August 2003
• Publisher: ILR Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.7" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher