Life on the Other Border

Life on the Other Border
Author: Teresa M. Mares
Publisher: University of California Press
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2019-04-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0520295722

In her timely new book, Teresa M. Mares explores the intersections of structural vulnerability and food insecurity experienced by migrant farmworkers in the northeastern borderlands of the United States. Through ethnographic portraits of Latinx farmworkers who labor in Vermont’s dairy industry, Mares powerfully illuminates the complex and resilient ways workers sustain themselves and their families while also serving as the backbone of the state’s agricultural economy. In doing so, Life on the Other Border exposes how broader movements for food justice and labor rights play out in the agricultural sector, and powerfully points to the misaligned agriculture and immigration policies impacting our food system today.

Those who Stayed Behind

Those who Stayed Behind
Author: Hal S. Barron
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 204
Release: 1988-01-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521347778

Hal Barron reconstructs the social and economic history of a nineteenth-century rural community in America, Chelsea, Vermont. He explores the economic hardships and population loss that most of America at this time experienced growth and geographical expansion. This book provides an innovative contribution to the history of rural America.