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 Labor, Farm Summary
735 words, approx. 3 pages The rise of organized labor in agriculture is epitomized by the United Farm Workers of America (UFW), the largest and oldest union of agricultural laborers in the nation, and its influence on environmental public policy, operations, and worker... summary from source:
 Farming Summary
1,822 words, approx. 6 pages Farming, or agriculture, is the science or art of cultivating the soil, growing and harvesting crops, and the raising of animals. Beginning some 10,000 years ago, people in various places around the world began to grow plants and domesticate animals.... summary from source:
 Farming Summary
1,742 words, approx. 6 pagesFarmers in antebellum America were committed to a mix of subsistence and commercial production. Slavery and the cotton gin drove the rapid expansion of cotton farming in the South. Slavery and the plantation system also created profitable markets for... summary from source:
 United Farm Workers Information
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The United Farm Workers of America (UFW) is a labor union that evolved from unions founded in 1962 by César Chávez, Philip Vera Cruz, Dolores Huerta, and Larry Itliong. This union changed from a workers' rights organization that helped workers get... 
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 The Christian Century Farm worker victory.(Florida mushroom laborers join United Farm Workers)
01/05/2000: 1,172 words, approx. 4 pages MUSHROOM FARMERS LEAD THE WAY WHEN UNITED Farm Workers organizer Frank Curiel answered the phone in mid-December, he had just come from Quincy Farms, which each year produces 25 million pounds of white button mushrooms and 500,000 pounds of giant portobellos. He... summary from source:
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Chavez's son-in-law revives United Farm Workers
02/25/1996: 816 words, approx. 3 pages On the front lines of the resurgent United Farm Workers union, there is no escaping the past. Cesar Chavez, the union's deceased founder and patron saint, is everywhere, his face on placards, T-shirts and buttons, his name invoked as a battle cry. ... summary from source:
 AP News Citrus farmer aid tied up in Iraq bill
3/24/2007: 430 words, approx. 1 pagesA bill promising $40 million in federal aid for a citrus industry recovering from this winter's deep freeze is likely to collapse because it's attached to an Iraq supplemental funding bill that the president is expected to veto.The Senate Appropriations Committee this week approved money... summary from source:
AP News EPA may be sued over popular pesticide
7/31/2007: 402 words, approx. 1 pagesUnions and nonprofit groups said Tuesday that they will sue the Environmental Protection Agency in a bid to ban a popular pesticide they say sickens farm workers and rural residents.The United Farm Workers of America, the AFL-CIO and several other organizations had planned to file...
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