Jesús Salas, a longtime labor organizer, educator, former UW System Regent, and benefactor of the Chican@ & Latin@ Studies Program, was honored earlier this month with a plaque at Alumni Park commemorating his achievements. He …
Farm Labor Movement
CLS César Chávez Day of Reflection 2021
On Wednesday March 31st from 4:00pm to 5:00pm, the Chican@ & Latin@ Studies Program will celebrate the 94th anniversary of the birth of labor organizer and civil rights icon César Estrada Chávez with a virtual …
José Villagrán: “Stuck in the Mud: The Embeddedness of Exploitation in U.S. Farm Labor”
CLS Lecturer José Villagrán (Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin, Anthropology) will discuss his research on the lives of migrant and seasonal farmworkers of the “Midwest stream” between South Texas and the U.S. Midwest. Employing …