Vicki L. Ruiz

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.

Books by Vicki L. Ruiz

Cannery Women, Cannery Lives

Mexican Women, Unionization, and the California Food Processing Industry, 1930-1950

By Vicki L. Ruiz
Women have been the mainstay of the grueling, seasonal canning industry for over a century. This book is their collective biography--a history of their family and work lives, and of their union. Out of the labor militancy of the 1930s emerged the United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing, and Allied ...
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