United Mine Workers

American trade union leader, born March 31, 1927 near Yuma (Arizona) and died on April 23, 1993 in St. Louis (Arizona). Cesar Chavez was the founder of the unit of agricultural workers, who, since 1964, brought together migrant laborers, most of them Hispanic, to fight for the improvement of their working conditions. Cesar Chavez belonged to a family of Mexican immigrants employed in agricultural work. His childhood was stage a succession of fields of work between California and Arizona, which…

This is part of a whole week dedicated to a genre in this case I am going to write about documentaries and to be more specific I am going to to focus of one of the most prominent and important filmmakers of this genre. His movies are controversial and at the same time they have raised more money than any other maker of this craft. He is may be an unorthodox director, but he knows how to get across the message he wants to display. This was the first movie this mogul of documentaries did.…

transpired. On January 5, 1914, it was the rise of Henry Ford, when he announced a change that stunned the world. He revealed that Ford Motor Company was doubling its workers’ wages to five dollars a day. Reducing a workweek from six to five days and shifts from nine hours to eight hours. The wealthy industrialist sharing profits with workers on such a scale was unprecedented. Henry ford was a entrepreneur who basically invented the modern age. He was the founder of Ford Motor Company.…

black workers, the workers had to take it upon themselves to free themselves from the major exploitation and repression. Black workers were the ones that had the absolute worse conditions and compared to white workers, they worked for the lowest pay, were placed in the most dangerous environments and had the most back breaking work. There were many instances where workers were injured or worse but no one seemed to care about the issues they brought up or thought needed to be fixed. Workers were…

many letters to Europeans telling them of the great opportunities for immigrants to America and its generous, welcoming, paternal government. However, a study of the farm workers' experiences in America does not always paint a rosy picture. In particular, John Steinbeck and Cesar Chavez portrayed the dire circumstances of farm workers during the Great Depression (1930's) and the 1960's. To begin, Crevecoeur states in his letters that there's opportunity for everyone in America. Those who were…

There are certain characteristics that distinguish older workers from other groups of workers. The Sloan Center report that was availed in the year 2009, for example, indicates that the older workers are more productive compared to their young counterparts (MAERTZ, WILEY, LeROUGE, & CAMPION, 2010). The report also states that older employees are more reliable than the young and they have a high degree of loyalty. It has also been noted that job performance usually becomes better with age, and…

know who is Dolores and What she did to offer the Mexicans in the United States is something essential to fully understand the entirety of American History. Which sadly, like I mentioned before is something that is often overlooked. Many say History has the tendency to repeat itself, and that it runs in different cycles for example, in today’s world we are once again struggling with how Latinos are being treated here in the United States due to Elected…

food workers are treated. And, finally Eliot Coleman writes about how the word organic has changed because…

Most people that enjoy the produce on the table do not realize that it is was grown through extensive effort and hard work from farm workers. Farm workers grow and pick the harvest people eat. They undergo continuous physical stress while doing their job. This results in injuries and serious issues that can affect their career. Their health is put at risk when these concerns persist and when they are not provided with suitable housing. In 1970, farm laborers were paid above minimum wage at a…

pain for low wages, horrible living conditions and harsh treatment/exploitation from farm owners are just a few experiences that farm labor workers have gone through in the search of a better life. The history of farm labor migration has been shaped by Chinese, Japanese, Filipino,…