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Factory Farms
Call Number: V 718Format: VHSProducers: Estuary PressCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Factory Farms tells the unique story of California agriculture, a highly capitalized, sophisticated industry with substandard wage rates that keeps its workers in poverty and destitution. The film documents 1959 labor conditions for farm workers and reviews the history of union organizing in California agriculture.
Uno Veintecinco: The Lettuce Strike of 1962
Call Number: V 723Format: VHSProducers: Estuary PressCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Uno Veintecinco documents the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC), AFL-CIO, strike to get lettuce pickers in California $1.25/hour. The film interviews organizers and workers and reviews the 20th century history of labor organizing in California's fields. It contains footage of spontaneous strike actions in which farm workers are shown leaving the fields to join the strikers.
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