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Chasing the Harvest: Migrant Workers in California Agriculture
Contributor(s): Thompson, Gabriel (Editor)

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ISBN: 1786632217     ISBN-13: 9781786632210
Publisher: Verso
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: May 2017
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BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | Labor & Industrial Relations
- Social Science | Agriculture & Food
- History | United States - State & Local - West (ak, Ca, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, Wy)
Dewey: 331.544
LCCN: 2016055800
Series: Voice of Witness
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.4" W x 8.1" L (0.90 lbs) 320 pages
Features: Illustrated, Maps, Price on Product
 
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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.

 
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