6th+Grade+-+Labor+Rights

=Strike=

Harvest Workers on Strike, 1958 (silent video)



=Boycott=



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...

=Union =

Labor Union Political March, 1947

Crowd of Union Workers at NY World's Fair, 1939

=Migrant Worker=

1970

Migrant worker on truckload of picked Cotton

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[|Bread and Roses Strike of 1912: Two Months in Lawrence, Massachusetts, that Changed Labor History] from the Digital Public Library of America