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William H. Friedland

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#650

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#769

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#290

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William H. Friedland's Degrees

PhD Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Masters Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Sociology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, William Herbert Friedland was an American sociologist. Friedland was of Russian Jewish descent and grew up in Staten Island. After attending Wagner College, he moved to Detroit and worked at automobile factories for a decade, namely for the Hudson Motor Car Company and Ford Motor Company. Allied with Max Shachtman's third camp, Friedland was also active as a labor organizer for the United Auto Workers and Congress of Industrial Organizations. He was introduced to Joe Glazer by Bill Kemsley. Friedland and Glazer recorded songs of the labor movement, releasing two albums together. Friedland left his factory job and returned to academia, earning a bachelor's degree from Wayne State University and a doctorate at University of California, Berkeley. He then taught at Cornell University, where he established the Migrant Labor Project, which introduced undergraduate students to field study practices used at the graduate level. Friedland joined the faculty of the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1969, and founded the school's community studies department. As dean of UCSC's Social Sciences Division, Friedland helped establish College Eight. He died in Santa Cruz, California at the age of 94 on February 20, 2018.

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William H. Friedland's Published Works

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From Columbus to ConAgra: The Globalization of Agriculture and Food (1996) (218)
From Columbus to ConAgra: The Globalization of Agriculture and Food. (1994) (133)
Towards a New Political Economy of Agriculture (1991) (124)
For a Sociological Concept of Charisma (1964) (117)
Manufacturing Green Gold: Capital, Labor and Technology in the Lettuce Industry. (1984) (99)
REPRISE ON COMMODITY SYSTEMS METHODOLOGY (2001) (99)
The End of Rural Society and the Future of Rural Sociology. (1981) (95)
Agriculture and Rurality: Beginning the “Final Separation”?* (2009) (83)
Organizing the Movement: The Roots and Growth of ACORN. (1986) (77)
Agrifood globalization and commodity systems. (2004) (68)
Manufacturing green gold (1981) (56)
Migrant Agricultural Workers in America's Northeast. (1972) (48)
Industrialization and Democracy. (1965) (48)
The Other Californians: Prejudice and Discrimination under Spain, Mexico and the United States to 1920. (1973) (45)
New Ways of Working and Organization: Alternative Agrifood Movements and Agrifood Researchers (2010) (34)
Destalking the Wily Tomato: A Case Study in Social Consequences in California Agricultural Research. Research Monograph No. 15. (1975) (29)
Vuta Kamba: The Development of Trade Unions in Tanganyika (1970) (28)
The Discourse on Alternative Agrifood Movements (2014) (23)
Higher-Yielding Human Systems for Agriculture. (1984) (20)
“Chasms” in agrifood systems: rethinking how we can contribute (2008) (20)
The Knowledge Factory: Student Power and Academic Politics in America (1972) (17)
The Development of an African Working Class: Studies in Class Formation and Action. (1977) (17)
U.S. Agricultural Policy: The 1985 Farm Legislation. (1986) (15)
Commodity systems - forward to comparative analysis. (2005) (15)
Manufacturing Green Gold: The Conditions and Social Consequences of Lettuce Harvest Mechanization (1980) (14)
CLASS FORMATION AND DECOMPOSITION IN MODERN CAPITALIST AGRICULTURE: COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES (1989) (14)
Traditionalism and Modernization: Movements and Ideologies* (1968) (14)
Casual Work and Poverty in Third World Cities.@@@Peasants and Proletarians: The Struggles of Third World Workers.@@@Choice, Class and Conflict: A Study of Southern Nigerian Factory Workers (1980) (14)
Social control and social change (1971) (13)
Labor waste in New York: Rural exploitation and migrant workers (1969) (12)
African Trade Union studies : analysis of two decades (1974) (12)
Agrifood Alternatives and Reflexivity in Academic Practice (2010) (11)
Paradoxes of agricultural unionism in California (1974) (11)
Who killed rural sociology? A case study in the political economy of knowledge production. (2010) (9)
1922 : the revolt of the Rand (1968) (8)
Comparative urban research : the administration and politics of cities (1970) (7)
Collective Bargaining in African Countries (1967) (7)
Unions and industrial relations in underdeveloped countries (1963) (6)
Strawberry Fields: Politics, Class, and Work in California Agriculture by Miriam J. Wells (1998) (6)
agency and the agrifood system (2007) (6)
Tomato technology (1976) (5)
Labor in the Food System, from Farm to Table (2016) (5)
Technological Trends and the Organization of Migrant Farm Workers (1972) (5)
The Global Restructuring of Agro-Food Systems.@@@From Columbus to ConAgra: The Globalization of Agriculture and Food. (1995) (5)
7. The Global Fresh Fruit and Vegetable System: An Industrial Organization Analysis (2019) (4)
Production or Perish: Changing the Inequities of Agricultural Research Priorities. (1979) (4)
Confrontation at cornell (1969) (4)
Unions, labor and industrial relations in Africa : an annotated bibliography (1965) (3)
Kevin Morgan, Terry Marsden, and Jonathan Murdoch: Worlds of Food: Place, Power, and Provenance in the Food Chain (2008) (3)
Management Rights and Union Interests. (1965) (3)
Homelessness in Santa Cruz, California: A Contribution to the Sociology of the New Homelessness * (1990) (2)
Organizational Chaos and Political Potential (1965) (1)
Teaching Food and Society: A Collection of Syllabi and Instructional Materials (1993) (1)
Paradoxes of African trade unionism (1965) (1)
The transnationalization of production and consumption of food and fibre: challenges for rural research (1991) (1)
U.s. Agricultural science: science, agriculture, and the politics of research. (1984) (1)
Social Sleepwalkers. Scientific and Technological Research in California Agriculture. Research Monograph No. 13. (1974) (1)
Book Review (2006) (1)
Four Sociological Trends in African Socialism (1963) (1)
The Community, The Teacher and The Migrant Child. (1969) (1)
The Ways Out: Utopian Communal Groups in an Age of Babylon.By John R. Hall. London and Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1978. 269 pages. $11.95 (1979) (1)
Introduction: Shaping the New Political Economy of Advanced Capitalist Agriculture (2021) (1)
Women and Agriculture in the United States: A State of the Art Assessment (2021) (1)
Book Review:Unions in Emerging Societies: Frustration and Politics. Sidney C. Sufrin (1965) (0)
Development and Change: Blue Ridge: An Appalachian Community in Transition. BERTON H. KAPLAN (1973) (0)
Book Review: Labor Conditions and Problems: Industrialization and Democracy (1965) (0)
The Labor Force in U.S. Agriculture (2021) (0)
The knowledge factory (1971) (0)
Community Studies and Research for Change: An Oral History with William Friedland (2013) (0)
Organizational Chaos and Political Potential of African Trade Unions [Abstract] (1964) (0)
Book Review: The other Californians: Prejudice and Discrimination under Spain, Mexico and the United States to 1920 (1973) (0)
Julia Flynn Siler: The House of Mondavi: The Rise and Fall of an American Wine Dynasty. New York: Gotham Books, 2007, 452 pp., ISBN 1-59240-259-3, $28 (2007) (0)
Debates in the Sociology of Agriculture@@@Agrarian Capitalism in Theory and Practice. (1991) (0)
Book Review: Wobblies, Pile Butts, and Other Heroes: Laborlore Explorations, by Archie Green. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993 (1996) (0)
RAY WALKER: The Road to Burgundy: The Unlikely Story of an American Making Wine and a New Life in France . Gotham/Penguin, New York, 2013, 320 pp., ISBN: 978-1592408122, $26.00 (cloth). (2014) (0)
FEEDBACKfrom our readers (1969) (0)
Book Review: Labor Organizations: The Development of an African Working Class: Studies in Class Formation and Action (1977) (0)
Labor's role in emerging African socialist states (1966) (0)
Who Killed Rural Sociology (2010) (0)
African Socialism. By Brockway Fenner. (Chester Springs, Pa.: Dufour Editions, 1963. Pp. 128. $3.50.)African Trade Unions. By Davies Ioan. (Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1966. Pp. 256. $1.25.) (1967) (0)
Comparative Urban Research: The Administration and Politics of Cities. Edited by Robert T. Daland. Beverly Hills, California: Sage, 1969, 361 pp. $10.00 (1970) (0)
Work, women, and class (1977) (0)
Books in review (1980) (0)
Community and Revolution in Modern Vietnam.Alexander B. Woodside (1977) (0)
Book Review: Corporate Capitalism in Kenya (1981) (0)
Migrant Labor: Teaching, Research and Policy; A Final Report to the Ford Foundation on a Four Year Project. (1971) (0)
(12) Organizational Chaos and Political Potential of African Trade Unions (1964) (0)
Book Review: The Land Was Everything; Letters From An American Farmer By Victor Davis Hanson (2002) (0)
Revolutionary Jews from Marx to Trotsky.Robert S. Wistrich (1978) (0)
The Fruits of Natural Advantage: Making the Industrial Countryside in California, by Steven Stoll (2000) (0)
The U.S. Processed Strawberry Market: An Analysis of Trends and Commodity Characteristics as They Impact on Oregon (2007) (0)
The Noble Savages: The Primitive Origins of Charisma and Its Contemporary Survival.Bryan Wilson (1978) (0)
Book Review: Labor-Management Relations: Farm Labor Organizing: Trends and Prospects (1996) (0)
Conditions and Consequences of Lettuce Harvest Mechanization1 (1979) (0)
Christopher R. Henke: Cultivating Science, Harvesting Power: Science and Industrial Agriculture in California (2010) (0)
Book Reviews (1988) (0)
Soft Soil, Black Grapes: The Birth of Italian Winemaking in California, by Simone Cinotto, New York: New York University Press, 2012. 267 pp. $35.00 (cloth). ISBN: 978-0-8147-1738-7. (2014) (0)
Hutchens, Anna: Changing Big Business: The Globalisation of the Fair Trade Movement (2011) (0)
Books Received (1965) (0)
Book Review: International and Comparative Labor Relations: Collective Bargaining in African Countries (1968) (0)

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