United Packinghouse Workers of America

found that “The American Dream” was nonexistent and just a way to entice people into thinking that there were jobs, good living conditions, and high wages. Bryant sums up the theme of The Jungle best, “The novel tells the story of a group of Lithuanian immigrants who have been lured to America from their old-world villages with the promise of high wages” (1192-1193). Jurgis eventually begins to see that “The American Dream” is something mock, “…[character] having begun to see at last how those might be right to laugh at him for his faith in America”, he realizes that he and his family came all the way over to the United States of America because of “The American Dream” and yet it has failed them (Sinclair…

The Big Four companies broke the strike by bringing in strikebreakers replacements for those on strike. The editor of Appeal to Reason suggested that Sinclair write a novel about the strike. Sinclair prowled the streets of Chicago’s Packingtown, the residential district next to the stockyards and packing plants, for 7 weeks. He posed as a worker and went into the packing plants to gain firsthand knowledge of the life and work in Packingtown. After the 7 weeks he went home to New Jersey and…

day-to-day lives of many through the power of major oil companies. Finding an efficient mass transportation system for people has been a consistent issue that even today we have yet to solve. The introduction of the automobile and highway systems is the closest we have come to solving this everlasting problem. Before the automobile, there were other systems of mass transit, such as the early street railways like the Pacific electric red cars of Los Angeles. These systems dominated transportation…

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…

for justice” (nbclatino.com). Cesar Chavez, and American labor leader, believed in non-violence as he went on his strikes. He sacrificed himself for others as he fasted for continuous days. Cesar Chavez is an important figure in American History because he used non-violence to bring attention to farm workers. Without Cesar Chavez, America would not have fair pay and working conditions in the fields. Cesar Chavez was born on March 31, 1927, in Yuma, Arizona, to immigrant parents. At age 10, he…

rights for farm workers, a labor leader and a civil right activist became a big hero to many farmers in California especially to many Latinos. The education Chavez got was no enough so he served in the Navy during WW II for a couple of years. In 1952 Cesar then met ad was inspired by a guy name Fred Ross. Ross a leader of Community Services Organization gave important concepts to Chavez which inspired Chavez to develop his own philosophy struggle. At the time it was very difficult for Mexicans…

Before we can understand the labor dynamics of what Filipino immigrants faced in the United States, we have to retract to earlier history between the formation of the United States and Philippine relationship. In 1898 after Spain surrendered the Philippines to the United States, President McKinley issued the Benevolent Assimilation program “…which promised that the Americans came as friends and not as conquerors” (Mabalon 29). This eventually opened the gates of Filipino migration to the United…

“One of the heroic figures [Cesar Chavez] of our times.” A quote from senator Robert F. Kennedy talking about Cesar Chavez, who started the strikes for better pay for farm workers (Alarcon). Cesar Chavez was a great man that gave U.S. farmworkers a better life. Cesar Chavez was born March 31st, 1927 in Yuma Arizona. At around this time it was the end of the great depression, and Chavez’s mother and father, Juana and Librade, had lost their farm. They then moved to California like many others to…

and salary of farm workers. He lived a hard life too, he lost his home at the age of 10 years old. He stopped going to school in grade 8 and he served in the Navy. He was the founder of the National Farm Workers Association and he did everything possible to accomplish his goals, he sacrificed his life and boycotted too. This story begins with his early life, when he started to realize how farm workers got treated and that they deserved better than that. Early Life/ Great Depression Cesar…

Pancho Villa Early Life San Juan del Rio, Durango, Mexico on June 5, 1878 is where our little war master was born and he was soon to be known by a lot of people ( Source 3 ). Jose Doroteo Arango Arambula was the name of the hero that would soon arise into his new world of Mexico ( Source 2 ). Villa was born in the mud and dirt, he was very poor and he helped his family on the farm ( Source 4 ). Once Villa started growing and getting into more action a lot of people started saying that he…