The Migrant Farm Worker In America
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Author | : Linda Jacobs Altman |
Publisher | : |
Total 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
Author | : Gabriel Thompson |
Publisher | : Verso Books |
Total 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.
Author | : Seth M. Holmes |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 323 |
Release | : 2023-11-28 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0520399455 |
Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies provides an intimate examination of the everyday lives, suffering, and resistance of Mexican migrants in our contemporary food system. Seth Holmes, an anthropologist and MD in the mold of Paul Farmer and Didier Fassin, shows how market forces, anti-immigrant sentiment, and racism undermine health and health care. Holmes was invited to trek with his companions clandestinely 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 the ways in which social inequities come to be perceived as normal and natural in society and in health care. In a substantive new epilogue, Holmes and Indigenous Oaxacan scholar Jorge Ramirez-Lopez provide a current examination of the challenges facing farmworkers and the lives and resistance of the protagonists featured in the book.
Author | : Paola Ramos |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2020-10-20 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1984899104 |
Latinos across the United States are redefining identities, pushing boundaries, and awakening politically in powerful and surprising ways. Many—Afrolatino, indigenous, Muslim, queer and undocumented, living in large cities and small towns—are voices who have been chronically overlooked in how the diverse population of almost sixty million Latinos in the U.S. has been represented. No longer. In this empowering cross-country travelogue, journalist and activist Paola Ramos embarks on a journey to find the communities of people defining the controversial term, “Latinx.” She introduces us to the indigenous Oaxacans who rebuilt the main street in a post-industrial town in upstate New York, the “Las Poderosas” who fight for reproductive rights in Texas, the musicians in Milwaukee whose beats reassure others of their belonging, as well as drag queens, environmental activists, farmworkers, and the migrants detained at our border. Drawing on intensive field research as well as her own personal story, Ramos chronicles how “Latinx” has given rise to a sense of collectivity and solidarity among Latinos unseen in this country for decades. A vital and inspiring work of reportage, Finding Latinx calls on all of us to expand our understanding of what it means to be Latino and what it means to be American. The first step towards change, writes Ramos, is for us to recognize who we are.
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Labor and Public Welfare |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 1960 |
Genre | : Agricultural laborers |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Andrew J. Hazelton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2022 |
Genre | : Migrant agricultural laborers |
ISBN | : 9780252044632 |
Introduction: "The Stepchildren of Labor" -- The Rise and Decline of Farmworker Unionism, 1934-46 -- Dominant Growers, Futile Organizing, 1946-51 -- Permanent Guestworkers, Struggling Union, 1951-54 -- Border Fantasies: Immigration and Cross-Border Organizing, 1948-55 -- Union Advocacy, Rising Liberalism, Indifferent Labor, 1955-59 -- Dying Union, Rising Movement, 1959-66 -- Conclusion: "Some Other Prophet".
Author | : Ellen C. Kearns |
Publisher | : Greenwood Press |
Total Pages | : 1756 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781570181085 |
Author | : Daniel H. Pollitt |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 98 |
Release | : 1960 |
Genre | : Agricultural laborers |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Rick Nahmias |
Publisher | : UNM Press |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2008-03 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780826344076 |
Iconic photographs and the stories of the men, women, and children who work California's farms and orchards to feed America.
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Migratory Labor |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 508 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Migrant agricultural laborers |
ISBN | : |