Cannery Women, Cannery Lives

Cannery Women, Cannery Lives: Mexican Women, Unionization, and the California Food Processing Industry, 1930-1950 is a 1987 monograph by Vicki L. Ruiz published by the University of New Mexico Press.[1]

Cannery Women, Cannery Lives: Mexican Women, Unionization, and the California Food Processing Industry, 1930-1950
Cannery Women, Cannery Lives book cover
Book cover
AuthorVicki L. Ruiz
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
SubjectCalifornia History
GenreNon-fiction, History
PublisherUniversity of New Mexico Press
Publication date
1987
Media typeHardcover, Paperback, eBook
Pages194
ISBN978-0826309884
Website

Synopsis

Cannery Women, Cannery Lives tells the history of Mexican and Mexican-American women working in the California canning and food processing industry and their involvement in labor organization and unionization during 19301950. Ruiz combines a variety of sources, government records, newspaper articles, union documents, and oral histories to tell the story of how Mexican American women shaped the canning and food processing industry and unionization in California and how the industry in turn impacted their lives, families and communities.[2][3]

The book is divided into six chapters. The first two chapters discuss the details of the work, family, and community lives of the women working in the industry;[4] the role of family and kinship connections form an important theme in the work.[5] Chapters 35 focus on the United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing, and Allied Workers of America (UCAPAWA), a loosely organized labor union created in 1937, and how it developed and influenced the California food packing industry and the roles Mexican women in the cannery industry played in its organization, development, and leadership. The final chapter discusses the competition between the UCAPAWA and the more centrally organized Teamsters and its eventual decline and absorption into the Distributive and Processing Workers of America.[2][6]

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About the author

Vicki L. Ruiz is a historian and professor focusing on the lives of Mexican American women in the 20th century. Ruiz has served as president of the American Historical Association, the American Studies Association, the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, and the Organization of American Historians. In 2015 she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and was awarded the National Humanities Medal.[lower-alpha 1][7][8][9]

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Notes

  1. Wikipedia contributors (2021 March 3) Vicki L. Ruiz. In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 01:39, April 6, 2021, from en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vicki_L._Ruiz&oldid=1010078098

Citations

  1. Petrik 1988.
  2. Baldwin 1989.
  3. Romero 1989.
  4. del Castillo 1989.
  5. Garcia 1990.
  6. Philips 1989.
  7. "Vicki L. Ruiz Biography". American Historical Association. Retrieved 2 April 2021.
  8. Chan, Alex (6 September 2015). "UCI professor to receive honor from Obama". Daily Pilot. Retrieved 2 April 2021.
  9. "Vicki L. Ruiz". The OAH Distinguished Lectureship Program. Organization of American Historians. Retrieved 2 April 2021.
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