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The Bracero Program (from the Spanish term bracero [bɾaˈse.ɾo], meaning "manual laborer" or "one who works using his arms") was a U.S. Government-sponsored program that imported Mexican farm and railroad workers into the United States between the years 1942 and 1964.
The United Farm Workers of America, or more commonly just United Farm Workers (UFW), is a labor union for farmworkers in the United States. It originated from the merger of two workers' rights organizations, the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) led by César Chávez, Dolores Huerta, and Gilbert Padilla and the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC) led by organizer Larry Itliong.
United Farm Workers aims to empower migrant workers through nonviolent tactics to have liveable wages and safe working conditions. A strike against the grape growers in Delano, California, that ...
The program purported to protect workers from discrimination. But the reality was much harsher for many braceros . This photo taken in Hidalgo, Texas, in 1956 shows a masked worker spraying ...
Farm labourer Sandra Noemi Bucu Saz is happy. She's recently returned to Guatemala in Central America from the US, where she was picking strawberries in California. "They paid us $19 (£15.60) an ...
Franklin, Stephen. "Farm Workers' Group Pushes for Better Pay, Rights." Chicago Tribune. April 8, 2006. Greenhouse, Steven. "North Carolina Growers' Group Signs Union Contract for Mexican Workers." New York Times. September 17, 2004. Greenhouse, Steven. "Unions Say Labor Department Is Ignoring Wage Requirements." New York Times. June 27, 2001.
The Mexican farm workers entered the U.S. legally under a special program that helps crops get picked for market. But once in South Carolina, work conditions became “intolerable,” a federal ...
Henry Pope Anderson (December 14, 1927 – October 24, 2016) was a farm labor union organizer, activist, author, and historian. He studied the Bracero program (an agricultural guest-worker program) as a graduate student in Public Health at the University of California.