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Interview No. 1233, Antonio Nuño May 2009

Interview No. 1233, Antonio Nuño

Combined Interviews

Mr. Nuño talks about his family and what his life was like growing up; he later married, and when he was roughly twenty years old, he and his wife moved to Mexicali, Baja California, México to be with her family; he began crossing into the United States to work without proper documentation, but shortly after he obtained a bracero contract in 1949 with the help of family friends; later, he had to go through the contracting process in Guadalajara, Jalisco, México, where he was stripped, medically examined and deloused; he explains that he paid bribes to go through the process …


Labor History Symposium: Gerald Friedman, Reigniting The Labor Movement, Craig Phelan, Frances Fox Piven, Catherine Collomp, Guy Groux, Michael Hanagan, Gerald Friedman Jan 2009

Labor History Symposium: Gerald Friedman, Reigniting The Labor Movement, Craig Phelan, Frances Fox Piven, Catherine Collomp, Guy Groux, Michael Hanagan, Gerald Friedman

Economics Department Faculty Publications Series

When trade union growth worldwide came to a halt in the 1980s, a wide body of literature appeared on the causes of trade union decline. Since that time an even more substantial number of books and articles have been penned on the possibility of trade union revitalization: which combination of factors might lead to resurgence; what organizational forms are best suited to the new political and economic landscape; which goals, strategies and tactics are most likely to spark a reversal of trade unionism’s fortunes. Gerald Friedman, Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts and the US editor of this …