Dolores Huerta

My mother was a very wonderful woman. When she and my dad divorced, she moved to California and worked two jobs in the cannery at night and as a waitress during the day. But she saved enough money to establish a restaurant.

American Activist

A cannery refers to an industrial environment, implying a large-scale operation and workforce.

Workplace Setting

The term emphasizes the preservation of food, capturing the transition from fresh to long-lasting form.

Preservation Process

Canneries were central to food distribution before refrigeration, a historical context essential for understanding their impact.

Historical Significance

 to get organized and then the fishermen came to me to say you the guy who helped Morrie can you help us and I have this five fishermen to work together and get this beautiful tuna not to the cannery in Albany for 60 cents a kilo but we find a

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 community-based marine protected area, right next to the biggest polluting cannery, because Julia knew that when the canneries eventually were gone, the ocean needed a place to grow from, that the ocean needed a place to spark a seed,

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 cannery row became known for its vast fishing industry overfishing nearly wiped out populations of sardines salmon and halibut

Cannery