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Title: Migrant Barracks
Description: Clothes hanging and drying on clotheslines in front of migrant workers' barracks. Libby McNeil and Libby Company was a major employer of migrant farm workers in the area. In 1968, workers in Hartford staged a walkout to support Obreros Unidos (United Workers) to show dissatisfaction with company domination of the local union.

This photograph is a part of Wisconsin-native David Giffey's series "Struggle for Justice," images from the migrant farm worker struggle including an independent organizing effort in Wisconsin and the nationwide grape boycott movement started by Cesar Chavez of United Farm Workers during the 1960s and 1970s.

Cuartel para emigrantes

Ropa colgada para secar en un tendedero enfrente de un cuartel para trabajadores emigrantes. La compañía Libby McNeil & Libby Company era un empleador mayoritario de trabajadores emigrantes en el área. En 1968, los trabajadores en la planta de Hartford hicieron un paro laboral para apoyar a Obreros Unidos y mostrar su insatisfacción con el dominio del sindicato por parte de la compañía. Esta fotografía es parte de la serie "Lucha por la Justicia" tomada por David Giffey, originario de Wisconsin, las imágenes muestran la lucha de los trabajadores agrícolas emigrantes incluyendo un esfuerzo independiente organizado en Wisconsin y el movimiento nacional del boicot de uvas empezado por Cesar Chávez de la unión de campesinos o United Farm Workers durante los años 1960 y 1970.
Image ID: 93063
Creation
Date: 		1969 
Creator
Name: 		Giffey, David
City, State: Hartford, Wisconsin
Collection
Name: 		Giffey, David: Photographs, 1966-1969
Genre: Photographs
Additional
Information: 		Information about Wisconsin migrant labor and grape boycotts from: Salas, Jesus and Giffey, David. "Lucha por la justicia: Movimiento de los trabajadores migrantes en Wisconsin = Struggle for Justice: The Migrant Farm Worker Labor Movement in Wisconsin." David Giffey, Photos by. Madison, Wis.: Wisconsin Labor History Society; 1998. 15 p. Wisconsin Labor History Website: http://www.wisconsinlaborhistory.org/
Subjects: Housekeeping
Food industry and trade
Cities and towns
Dwellings
Migrant labor
Commercial buildings
Automobiles
Outdoor photography
Barracks
Factories
Civil rights
Windows
 

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