San Antonio College Library

"The advent of new technologies in the early decades of the twentieth century changed the face of American farming. Increased mechanization and the expansion of markets demanded a new kind of agricultural worker - gone was the local farmhand, replaced by a cheap and temporary labor force of migrant and seasonal workers. In Harvest Wobblies, Greg Hall describes how members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) organized the men, women, and children...

Monograph tracing the historical and recent developments that led to the creation of a trade union for agricultural workers in the USA - outlines the major strikes, political problems, including political opposition from the teamsters union, and gives a detailed account of the efforts to form the united farm workers of america, the labour movement based on a grape boycott in california. Photographs.

In 1938, Emma Tenayuca led 10,000 pecan shellers' in a massive strike. In 1987, black women led a march of 3,000 through the streets of Nacogdoches. Experimental and contemporary, the film ends with the removal of the Jefferson Davis statue at UT-Austin.

A simple biography of the man who worked to win fairer treatment of the migrant farm workers in California in the 1960s and to establish the United Farm Workers union.