Philip Vera Cruz : a personal history of Filipino immigrants and the farmworkers movement /

Scharlin, Craig.

Philip Vera Cruz : a personal history of Filipino immigrants and the farmworkers movement / Craig Scharlin, Lilia V. Villanueva ; with an introduction by John L. Silva. - Manila : Anvil Pub., c2002. - xxxiii, 167 pages : illustrations 23 cm.

Reprint. Originally published: Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2000.

This book serves as a memoir during the time of the formation of the United Farm Workers union in Delano, California. It presents the struggles faced by the Filipino labor workers: racial discrimination, deplorable living conditions, and oppressive labor practices while revealing the unackowledged role of Filipino laborers in the creation of the United Farm Workers union.

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Agricultural laborers
Alien labor, Philippine
United Farm Workers

HD 6515.A292 / .Sch17 2002