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The Cuban-American labor movement in Dade County: an emerging immigrant working class
Miami now! immigration, ethnicity, and social change • Gainseville, Florida • Published In 1992 • Pages: 133-159
By: Grenier, Guillermo J..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In this article Grenier explores some of the dynamics involved in the development of a self-conscious Cuban working class in Dade County, Florida. Given particular attention in this paper is the emerging organization of this working class into class-based groups within the American labor movement, and how this emergence is affecting the politics of the area and the labor movement in general. Based on interviews, field research, and personal observations Grenier has organized his material around several major themes: '…the importance of understanding the working-class nature of the Cuban American population in Dade County, the militant labor tradition of Cuban workers, the overcoming of initial barriers to entering North American working-class organizations, the overcoming of the myth of the unorganizable Cuban, the development of ethnic solidarity within American organizations, the apparent ethnic succession of leadership of the south Florida AFL-CIO, and the efforts to develop nonpartisan political coalitions on labor issues' (p. 136).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- External migration
- Labor supply and employment
- Labor organization
- Political parties
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Cuban Americans
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1998
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Sociologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1997
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1980s
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Dade County, Florida, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Guillermo J. Grenier
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-159)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 92010100
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Cuban Americans