Object Details
- Description
- Some of the most effective nationwide consumer boycotts and strikes, often lasting for years, were against big fruit and vegetable growers and bulk wine producers.
- The struggle to balance fair wages and workers rights while maintaining cheap labor and sustaining farms has been a major issue in the history of agriculture and Mexican American civil rights. The National Farm Labor Union (later the National Agricultural Workers Union), the AFL-CIO, and the United Farm Workers used boycotts, strikes, and stoppages as a way to receive national attention for workers rights and working conditions. In the United States Southwest, agricultural labor was overwhelmingly Mexican and Mexican American. Issues of legal status, workers rights, and displacement of domestic workers are issues unions with predominantly Mexican participation have been struggling with since the 1920’s.
- ca 1970
- ID Number
- 2012.0036.06
- accession number
- 2012.0036
- catalog number
- 2012.0036.06
- Object Name
- pin
- button
- Physical Description
- metal (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 1 1/2 in; 3.81 cm
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Food
- FOOD: Transforming the American Table 1950-2000
- Exhibition
- Food: Transforming the American Table
- Exhibition Location
- National Museum of American History
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Food Culture
- Labor Unions
- Record ID
- nmah_1422164
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ad-9ddd-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
