Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. 1 Colonizing a Movement: The Federación Libre de Trabajadores in Puerto Rico 25
6. 2. Dreams of Democratic Unionism: The Confederación General de Trabajadores and Puerto Rican Agricultural Workers 60
7. 3 Up from Colonialism: Hawaiian Plantation Agriculture and the International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union 107
8. 4 Challenges and Survival: Sustaining Agricultural Unionism in Hawai‘i 147
9. 5 Marked in the Annals of the Labor Movement: The National Farm Labor Union, Organized Labor, and the DiGiorgio Strike 169
10. 6 From Factory to Industrial Area: Areawide Organizing in the San Joaquin and Imperial Valleys 203
11. Retrospective and Prospectus: The Labor Movement and Agricultural Workers 231
12. Notes 243
13. Glossary: Acronyms, Abbreviations, and Short Terms 275
14. Bibliography 279
15. Index 303