Grounds for dreaming : Mexican Americans, Mexican immigrants, and the making of the California farmworker movement

The racial and labor landscapes of the Salinas Valley before World War II --Racial meeting grounds and battlegrounds during wartime, 1941-1947 --Bound in tension : Mexican Americans, braceros, and undocumented migrants, 1947-1960 --The community service organization, 1953-1963 --A town full of dead Mexicans : the Salinas Valley bracero tragedy of 1963 --The farmworker movement in the post-bracero era --A blossoming of red flags : the Salinas UFWOC strike of 1970 --Conclusion : the farmworker justice movement, 1970 to the present.