Migrant Farm Workers
Title | Migrant Farm Workers PDF eBook |
Author | Linda Jacobs Altman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 112 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Agricultural laborers. |
ISBN | 9780531130339 |
Discusses the history and economics of migrant labor, describes the impact of the Great Depression, and recounts the efforts of migrant workers to improve their lot through boycotts and strikes
Chasing the Harvest
Title | Chasing the Harvest PDF eBook |
Author | Gabriel Thompson |
Publisher | Verso Books |
Pages | 321 |
Release | 2017-05-16 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1786632209 |
Lives from an invisible community—the migrant farmworkers of the United States The Grapes of Wrath brought national attention to the condition of California’s migrant farmworkers in the 1930s. Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers’ grape and lettuce boycotts captured the imagination of the United States in the 1960s and ’70s. Yet today, the stories of the more than 800,000 men, women, and children working in California’s fields—one third of the nation’s agricultural work force—are rarely heard, despite the persistence of wage theft, dangerous working conditions, and uncertain futures. This book of oral histories makes the reality of farm work visible in accounts of hardship, bravery, solidarity, and creativity in California’s fields, as real people struggle to win new opportunities for future generations. Among the narrators: Maricruz, a single mother fired from a packing plant after filing a sexual assault complaint against her supervisor. Roberto, a vineyard laborer in the scorching Coachella Valley who became an advocate for more humane working conditions after his teenage son almost died of heatstroke. Oscar, an elementary school teacher in Salinas who wants to free his students from a life in the fields, the fate that once awaited him as a child.
Harvest Of Confusion
Title | Harvest Of Confusion PDF eBook |
Author | Philip L Martin |
Publisher | CRC Press |
Pages | 257 |
Release | 2019-04-23 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0429693400 |
This book is intended as the first building block to assist in the development of realistic solutions for migrant farmworker issues in the U.S. It analyzes the vast and diverse data and literature which generate the confusion over the number and distribution of farmworkers who work in agriculture.
The Endless Quest
Title | The Endless Quest PDF eBook |
Author | Philip L Martin |
Publisher | CRC Press |
Pages | 234 |
Release | 2019-06-12 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 1000301001 |
A work which traces the development of US Government programmes designed to help migrant farm workers, showing how the programmes operate today and explaining why they are failing to remedy the problems they were designed to solve.
The Migrant Project
Title | The Migrant Project PDF eBook |
Author | Rick Nahmias |
Publisher | UNM Press |
Pages | 168 |
Release | 2008-03 |
Genre | Photography |
ISBN | 0826344070 |
Iconic photographs and the stories of the men, women, and children who work California's farms and orchards to feed America.
With These Hands
Title | With These Hands PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel Rothenberg |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 372 |
Release | 2000-10-30 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780520227347 |
"What makes this book so important is that it allows us to see into the lives of those who do the stoop labor to put that lovely salad on our tables. With These Hands is a unique and valuable documentary work that skillfully presents the voices of laborers and others, helping us to understand our connection to the world of America's farmworkers."—Studs Terkel
Migrant Farm Workers
Title | Migrant Farm Workers PDF eBook |
Author | Ronald L. Goldfarb |
Publisher | Wiley-Blackwell |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 1981 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
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