frances
>This type of arrangement is also very common in agriculture. In both the
>pickle and the chicken industry in this region, the packer/marketer
>controls the entire labor process through contracts with small growers.
>The workers nominally work for the "independent" grower or sometimes for a
>foreman. But the situation is not unorganizable. On Ohio and southern
>Michigan, the Farm Labor Organizing Committee has won three-party
>contracts among, marketers, growers, and pickle workers. Also tomato
>workers. Now they are trying the same thing with North Carolina pickle
>workers.
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