Hart Publishing eBooks· 2019· Book chapter
A Socio-Legal History of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers
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This paper examines how the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW), a low-budget grassroots organization, successfully convinced major food corporations to increase tomato prices by one cent per pound.
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Key points
- The Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) is a grassroots organization with a limited budget.
- The CIW successfully convinced corporate executives to pay an additional penny per pound for tomatoes.
- This achievement was made despite the CIW's members having limited financial resources.
- The paper analyzes the socio-legal history and strategies behind this success.
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Abstract
How was a grassroots organization with a limited budget, based in a poor backwater in South Florida, whose members could barely afford dietary basics, going to convince corporate executives in suburban Los Angeles to forgo profits by volunteering to pay a penny per pound more for the tomatoes that went into their salsa and salads?" 1 7 See, eg, KA Elliott and RB Freeman, 'White Hats or Don Quixotes?
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