2006年6月8日 · Four days earlier, about 2,500 Mexican naranjeros representing more than half of Orange County’s crucial citrus-picking force dropped their clippers, bags and ladders to demand higher wages,...

2019年12月17日 · Mexican orange workers lived in segregated housing and their children attended segregated schools. Picking Labor. Perhaps the seminal work written on the subject of Mexican citrus workers in Orange County is Labor and Community: Mexican Citrus Worker Villages in a Southern California County: 1900-1950 by Gilbert G. Gonzalez, professor at UCI.

Orange pickers could be identified by "his single drooping shoulder, deeply scarred from the strap of the bag he was required to fill with fifty pounds of oranges while perched on a precarious ladder."

2022年12月18日 · However, there is an aspect of the citrus story that is often left out—the fact that its massive success was made possible on the backs of a segregated Mexican immigrant labor force. Picking Valencia Oranges on the Harold Hale Ranch, 1943. From Labor and Community. Picking Labor

2012年6月20日 · In the years 1935-1936, the Mexican orange pickers of Orange County, formerly the "forgotten people" forced many, at least for a season, to revise their conception of the Mexican agricultural workers.

2007年2月28日 · The Mexican Citrus Picker Union, The Mexican Consulate, and The Orange County Strike of 1936 Gilbert G. Gonzalez View further author information Pages 48-65 | Published online: 28 Feb 2007

2014年7月23日 · As many as 125 work stoppages were recorded among the primarily Mexican migrant workers (along with some Japanese and others) who picked the money crop. In 1936, the struggle between the growers and pickers crossed the line in the County of Orange.

Orange county had a strike on its hands today. Four truckloads of Mexican orange pickers were stopped here and in El Modena early today and the pickers were sent home by strikers, according to Lucas Lucio, local representative for the Mexican consul at Los Angeles. Mr.

2016年4月14日 · For a full month, a veritable civil war occurred in the county’s groves between thousands of Mexican orange pickers who wanted to form a union and the lords of Orange County: police, the...

Semantic Scholar extracted view of "The Mexican Citrus Picker Union, The Mexican Consulate, and The Orange County Strike of 1936" by Gilbert G. González