STUDY QUESTIONS

CALIFORNIA:  AN INTERPRETIVE HISTORY (8th Ed.)

CHAPTER 29  -  INDUSTRIAL AGRICULTURE AND DISORGANIZED LABOR

1. In what ways was California's agricultural industry the most diversified in the country?
2. How did the processes of horizontal integration and vertical integration increase the power of agribusinesses?
3. What impact did science and technology have on the state's agriculture?
4. What did the term "farm fascism" refer to during the 1930s when it was coined?
5. Why was the Associated Farmers of California organized and who largely funded it?  What tactics did the association use against farm workers?
6. What two arguments were used by growers against any form of labor unionism?  Why did these arguments have some validity during the depression but not afterwards?
7. Why did the public's interest as to the plight of farm laborers increase during the Depression but decrease during the war?
8. What was the bracero program and how was it abused by growers?  When did it come to an end?
9. Who were Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta, and Larry Itliong?  What were their roles in the farm labor movement?
10. Why were farm worker unions more successful at organizing in the 1960s than in previous decades?
11. What was the purpose of a boycott of California table grapes?
12. When do farm workers finally receive the same equal protection under federal and state labor laws that other workers received?

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