Book Description
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 : Linda Jacobs Altman
Publisher :
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 23,52 MB
Release : 1994
Category : 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
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 20,95 MB
Release : 2017-05-16
Category : 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 : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Migratory Labor
Publisher :
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 45,97 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Migrant agricultural laborers
ISBN :
Author : Seth M. Holmes
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 24,26 MB
Release : 2023-11-28
Category : 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 : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Migratory Labor
Publisher :
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 49,81 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Migrant agricultural laborers
ISBN :
Author : Philip L Martin
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 21,9 MB
Release : 2019-04-23
Category : 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.
Author : Philip L Martin
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 29,36 MB
Release : 2019-06-12
Category : 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.
Author : Daniel H. Pollitt
Publisher :
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 27,89 MB
Release : 1961
Category : Agricultural laborers
ISBN :
Author : Rick Nahmias
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 30,22 MB
Release : 2008-03
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0826344070
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 :
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 12,2 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Migrant agricultural laborers
ISBN :