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Lettuce Wars Hardback - 2013

by Bruce Neuburger

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In 1971, Bruce Neuburger--young, out of work, and radicalized by the 60s counterculture in Berkeley--took a job as a farmworker on a whim. He could have hardly anticipated that he would spend the next decade laboring up and down the agricultural valleys of California, alongside the anonymous and largely immigrant workforce that feeds the nation. This account of his journey begins at a remarkable moment, after the birth of the United Farm Workers union and the ensuing uptick in worker militancy. As a participant in organizing efforts, strikes, and boycotts, Neuburger saw first-hand the struggles of farmworkers for better wages and working conditions, and the lengths the growers would go to suppress worker unity.

Part memoir, part informed commentary on farm labor, the U.S. labor movement, and the political economy of agriculture, Lettuce Wars is a lively account written from the perspective of the fields. Neuburger portrays the people he encountered--immigrant workers, fellow radicals, company bosses, cops and goons--vividly and indelibly, lending a human aspect to the conflict between capital and labor as it played out in the fields of California.

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  • Title Lettuce Wars
  • Author Bruce Neuburger
  • Binding Hardback
  • Pages 350
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Monthly Review Press
  • Publication date 2013-01-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9781583673331 / 1583673334
  • Weight 1.5 lbs (0.68 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.3 x 5.9 x 1.3 in (23.62 x 14.99 x 3.30 cm)
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Economic
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • Library of Congress subjects Agricultural laborers - Labor unions -, Agricultural laborers - California
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2012049446
  • Dewey Decimal Code 331.892

About the author

Bruce Neuburger is the author of Lettuce Wars: Ten Years of Work and Struggle in the Fields of California and also its Spanish translation, Guerras de Lechuga. His writing and is influenced by years working on farms and in factories, as a cab driver, an ESL teacher and a video arts instructor, and reflects a worldview both shaped by the great social justice movements of the 1960s, and his experiences as a child of Holocaust survivors from Germany,
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