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with highly paid lawyers; and she is a tough, optimistic and dedicated organizer on the grassroots level. She is strong-minded enough not to feel guilty in the face of criticism that she neglects her children; she feels she is raising them to be independent and socially-conscious. It's important to teach children "that other people besides themselves are important, and that the best thing they can do with their lives is to use it in the service of other people," she says. 53
(Fig. 19) These are the qualities one senses in Rosemary Quesada-Weiner's photograph of Huerta taken in 1980 at the Democratic National Convention. Casually dressed in a union tee-shirt, baseball hat set jauntily on her head, political buttons spangling her clothing, black hair touched with grey and freely cut for comfort, Huerta is totally and actively involved in what is going on around her. Quesada-Weiner has heightened her heroic qualities by shooting from below and emphasizing the strong diagonals of shoulders and hat with dark and light contrasts. By moving in close, the photographer has caught the sculptured planes of the face and the vivacity that shines in the eyes. There is a total lack of self-consciousness or of posing in public- traits that are instilled in many women from childhood on and which Huerta has apparently rejected or overcome.
After World War II, the Chicano population became urbanized and employment patterns changed. By the 1970s, only 8% of the resident Mexican-origin population was involved in agricultural work. Forty-five percent of working women entered white-collar jobs, of which 31.5% are sales and clerical personnel but only 6.1% are managers and professionals 54 - a figure that has undoubtedly risen by the 1980s. Increasingly newer immigrants and undocumented workers from Mexico and Latin America have filled the lower paid and more onerous jobs as domestics and baby sitters, as well as the most exploited sectors of factory labor, particularly in the garment industry where labor and legal violations are rampant.

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