Puerto Rico, Hawai'i, and California share the experiences of conquest and annexation to the United States in the nineteenth century and mass organizational str
The section on farm worker movements looks mainly at the agribusiness economy of California, beginning with farm worker mobilization in the depression era and t
The Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC) was founded by Baldemar Velásquez in 1967 to challenge the poverty and powerlessness that confronted migrant farmwor