Essay On Dolores Huerta

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The documentary “Dolores” narrated the experiences and passionate work of civil rights activist Dolores Huerta. Dolores dedicated most of her life to the United Farm Workers organization. She fought for workers rights and equality in the latino community. One of the biggest causes Dolores fought against was the mistreatment of farm workers. In a conflict theorist perspective, agribusiness profits off minorities, which in this case was the latino workers. Agribusiness as whole depends on the growers, which are the managers of the company, and farm workers. In this split labor market, growers continuously exploited farm workers. With poor working conditions and inadequate housing, they were one of the lowest paid workers in general. In one instance, …show more content…

Conditions were so poor, farm worker got paid 90 cents per hour. Growers often told them they were highly replaceable, if they did not like the horrible working conditions, someone else would be ready to take their place. A high amount of workers added with low pay resulted the great amounts of profit to the growers. Dolores saw this discrimination and unequal distribution of power, and pushed for better working conditions for farmers. Early on as an activist, Dolores encountered a lot of sexism. Dolores worked alongside with Cesar Chavez. Even though Dolores did most of the work for the UFA, Cesar Chavez was the face of the organization. In a sense Dolores, since she was a woman, was not able to break through the glass ceiling. She was often criticized about her personal life, she divorced a couple of times and had several kids. This tied into the role strain that she experienced. In traditional terms women are supposed to take care of the children, be the mothers of the family, but since Dolores dedicated most of her life as an activist, she was often judged of her place in the organization. In contrast Cesar Chavez, a man, he did not experience that type of treatment. This flawed social structure was what made Dolores support other causes such as

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