Man of fire selected writings / Ernesto Galarza ; edited by Armando Ibarra and Rodolfo D. Torres.

Author/creator Galarza, Ernesto
Other author Ibarra, Armando, 1956-
Other author Torres, Rodolfo D., 1949-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoUrbana, Illinois : University of Illinois Press, [2013]
Descriptionxxvii, 295 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Uniform titleWorks. Selections
SeriesThe working class in American history
Working class in American history. ^A227744
Contents pt. 1. Coming of age in a class society -- In a mountain village -- On the edge of the barrio -- pt. 2. Mexican labor, migration, and the American empire -- Life in the United States for Mexican people : out of the experience of a Mexican -- Program for action -- California the uncommonwealth -- pt. 3. Action research in defense of the Barrio -- Personal manifesto -- The reasons why : lessons in cartography -- Economic development by Mexican-Americans in Oakland, California -- Alviso : the crisis of a barrio -- pt. 4. Power, culture, and history -- Mexicans in the Southwest : a culture in process -- The Mexican-American migrant worker : culture and powerlessness -- How the Anglo manipulates the Mexican-American -- pt. 5. Organizing against capital -- Labor organizing strategies, 1930-1970 -- Poverty in the valley of plenty : a report on the Di Giorgio strike -- Plantation workers in Louisiana -- The farm laborer : his economic and social outlook -- Strangers in our fields -- pt. 6. Letters from an activist -- To Alfred Blackman, California Division of Industrial Safety, June 20, 1957 -- To Congressman James Roosevelt, December 20, 1957 -- Open letter to members of the House of Representatives, February 17, 1958 -- To Henry P. Anderson, April 2, 1958, To Henry P. Anderson, April 30, 1958 -- To Henry P. Anderson, June 24, 1958 -- To Jack Livingston, AFL-CIO Department of Organization, and Norman Smith, AFL-CIO organizer, May 5, 1959 -- To Norman Smith, December 5, 1959 -- To "Liberal friends who live in the East," March 18, 1960 -- pt. 7. Appendix -- Vale más la Revolución que viene / Mae Galarza.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 283-284) and index.
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ISBN9780252037672
ISBN0252037677
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