Labor

Statement at Pacific Lutheran University Speech by Cesar Chavez

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César Chávez, “Statement at Pacific Lutheran University,” speech given in March 1989.
(Alternative to Commonwealth Club Address)

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The Beet Fields: Memories of a Sixteenth Summer (Unabridged)

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For a 16-year-old boy out in the world alone for the first time, every day is an education in the hard work and boredom of migrant labor; every day teaches him something more about friendship, or hunger, or profanity, or lust - always lust. He learns how a poker game, or hitching a ride, can turn deadly.

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1070L
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03:19
The Beet Fields: Memories of a Sixteenth Summer (Unabridged)

Labor's Struggle (2005)

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Industrialization changed the nature of work, working conditions and the composition of the American workforce. Labor's struggle to organize, management's fierce resistance to their efforts, and the status of the American worker at this time are analyzed.

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Middle
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00:30
Labor's Struggle