Migrant Farm Workers in Southern New Mexico
Title | Migrant Farm Workers in Southern New Mexico PDF eBook |
Author | Clyde Eastman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 12 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Migrant agricultural laborers |
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A Study of New Mexico Migrant Agricultural Workers
Title | A Study of New Mexico Migrant Agricultural Workers PDF eBook |
Author | University of New Mexico. Design and Planning Assistance Center |
Publisher | |
Pages | 75 |
Release | 1971 |
Genre | Migrant labor |
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Hard Traveling
Title | Hard Traveling PDF eBook |
Author | Anthony P. Dunbar |
Publisher | |
Pages | 186 |
Release | 1976 |
Genre | Migrant agricultural laborers |
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Voices from the Fields
Title | Voices from the Fields PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 100 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Children of migrant laborers |
ISBN | 9780439270540 |
Photographs, poems, and interviews with children reveal the hardships and hopes of Mexican American migrant farm workers and their families.
Wandering Workers
Title | Wandering Workers PDF eBook |
Author | Willard A. Heaps |
Publisher | Crown |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 1968 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
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Examines, chiefly through interviews with migrant workers, their problems of employment, housing, and child welfare and education.
Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies
Title | Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies PDF eBook |
Author | Seth M. Holmes |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 323 |
Release | 2023-11-28 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0520398637 |
An intimate examination of the everyday lives and suffering of Mexican migrants and indigenous people in our contemporary food system. An anthropologist and MD in the mold of Paul Farmer and Didier Fassin, Seth Holmes shows how market forces, anti-immigrant sentiment, and racism undermine health and healthcare. Holmes’s material is visceral and powerful. He trekked with his companions illegally through the desert into Arizona and was jailed with them before they were deported. He lived with indigenous families in the mountains of Oaxaca and in farm labor camps in the United States, planted and harvested corn, picked strawberries, and accompanied sick workers to clinics and hospitals. This “embodied anthropology” deepens our theoretical understanding of how health equity is undermined by a normalization of migrant suffering, the natural endpoint of systemic dehumanization, exploitation, and oppression that clouds any sense of empathy for “invisible workers.” Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies is far more than an ethnography or supplementary labor studies text; Holmes tells the stories of food production workers from as close to the ground as possible, revealing often theoretically discussed social inequalities as irreparable bodily damage done. This book substantiates the suffering of those facing the danger of crossing the border, threatened with deportation, or otherwise caught up in the structural violence of a system promising work but endangering or ignoring the human rights and health of its workers. All of the book award money and royalties from the sales of this book have been donated to farm worker unions, farm worker organizations, and farm worker projects in consultation with farm workers who appear in the book.
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.