 | Promise Unfulfilled: Unions, Immigration, and the Farm Workers Subjects: Agricultural laborers -- Labor unions -- California; Agricultural laborers -- Labor unions -- Law and legislation -- California; Agricultural laborers Foreign -- California; In 1975, after vigorous campaigning by the United Farm Workers union, the state of California passed the Agricultural Labor Relations Act (ALRA), a pioneering self-help strategy granting farm workers the right to organize into unions. A quarter... Philip L. Martin is Professor of Agriculture and Resource Economics at the University of California, Davis. He is coauthor of several books including Controlling Immigration: A Global Perspective ; International Migration: Facing the Challenge ; and Poverty Amid Prosperity: Immigration and the Changing Face of Rural California . |
