Chasing the Harvest :Migrant Workers in California Agriculture - Voice of Witness

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Chasing the Harvest :Migrant Workers in California Agriculture - Voice of Witness

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More than a million men, women, and children work in American agriculture, and yet their stories are rarely told, their low-wage jobs are not included in minimum-wage ordinances or campaigns, and their work remains unorganized by labor unions. This book of oral histories restores to visibility these workers, by telling stories of hardship but also bravery, solidarity, and improvisation in California's farm fields. The majority of American produce is picked in California, while workers there face wage theft and sexual harassment, pesticide exposure and lack of healthcare, the struggle to find affordable housing, and the special risks endured by the undocumented--as many as half of all farmworkers. The book also tells the story of a new generation of labor activists, who are pressing for a national Bill of Rights for farmworkers.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9781786632210
ISBN10 1786632217
Number Of Pages 320
Item Weight 409 g
Product Dimensions 140 x 210 x 23 mm
Publisher / Reseller Verso Books
Format paperback
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The voices are defiant and nuanced, aware of the human complexities that spill across bureaucratic categories and arbitrary borders. -- Siddartha Deb * The Baffler *
A deeply moving tribute to the lives of the California farm workers, and their journey from Mexican villages into the cruel machinery of American agribusiness. -- Hector Tobar, author of Deep Down Dark
Cumulatively, these portraits form a nuanced mosaic of life in the fields-the good, the bad, the mundane, the tragic and the heroic. -- Miriam Pawel, author of The Crusades of Cesar Chavez
Not just an intimate, but an insider, look at the lives of California's farmworkers -- Elaine Elinson * San Francisco Chronicle *

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Author's Bio

Gabriel Thompson is an independent journalist who has written for the New York Times, Harper's, New York, Slate, Mother Jones, Virginia Quarterly Review, and the Nation. His articles about labor and immigration have won a number of prizes, including the Studs Terkel Media Award and the Sidney Award. His most recent book is America's Social Arsonist: Fred Ross and Grassroots Organizing in the Twentieth Century.

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