Cannery Women, Cannery Lives - by Vicki L Ruiz (Paperback)

About the Book

This dramatic and turbulent history of UCAPAWA is a major contribution to the new labor history in its carefully documented account of minority women controlling their union and regulating their working lives.

Book Synopsis

This dramatic and turbulent history of UCAPAWA is a major contribution to the new labor history in its carefully documented account of minority women controlling their union and regulating their working lives.

Review Quotes

"Cannery Women, Cannery Lives, " enhances our understanding of labor politics, Mexican womens lives, and immigrant family history. It is particularly valuable because it adds complexity to our perspectives on Mexican-origin women in the American experience.

I know of no more vivid or more convincing portrait of womens work culture than in "Cannery Women, Cannery Lives". . . . first rate . . .

"Cannery Women, Cannery Lives," enhances our understanding of labor politics, Mexican womens lives, and immigrant family history. It is particularly valuable because it adds complexity to our perspectives on Mexican-origin women in the American experience.

"Cannery Women, Cannery Lives," is a welcome addition to U.S. labor history. . . . particularly useful to readers interested in womens history, labor history, or Mexican-American culture.

""Cannery Women, Cannery Lives, is a welcome addition to U.S. labor history. . . . particularly useful to readers interested in women's history, labor history, or Mexican-American culture.

About the Author

Vicki L. Ruiz is Professor of History and Chicano/Latino Studies at the University of California, Irvine. She is the award-winning author of From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America, and a co-editor of Unequal Sisters: a Multicultural Reader in U.S. Women's History.