Word: boycotting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...boycott that is effective today, however, the international table grape boycott, was issued by the UFW in 1984 to continue to fight for humane working conditions. But little has changed since the first and second boycot. Nearly one-third of the workforce is under 16 years old, and many of these workers paid less than minimum wage. The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates that the average income of a farm worker's family is less than $5,000 a year. Farmworkers are seldom supplied with toilets or even drinking water while working...
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