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The Human Cost of Food : Farmworkers' Lives, Labor, and Advocacy / ed. by Melinda F. Wiggins, Charles D. Thompson.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2002Description: 1 online resource (357 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780292798915
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 331.5/44/0975 21
LOC classification:
  • HD1527.S85 H86 2002eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Sowing Seeds for Change symposium address -- Introduction -- The Virgin of Guadalupe, interview of Carmen Tomás -- CHAPTER 1. Making Home: Culture, Ethnicity, Mattern and Religion among Farmworkers in the Southeastern United States -- Sowing Seeds for Change symposium address -- CHAPTER 2. Layers of Loss: Migrants, Small Farmers, and Agribusiness -- Life on Easy Street -- CHAPTER 3. Standing Idly By: ‘‘Organized’’ Farmworkers in South Florida during the Depression and World War II -- Rifaré mi suerte/ I’ll Raffle My Luck interview of Humberto Zapata Alvizo -- CHAPTER 4. H-2A Guestworker Program: A Legacy of Importing Agricultural Labor -- Testimony at Hearing before the Commission on Agricultural Workers -- CHAPTER 5. Farmworker Exceptionalism under the Law: How the Legal System Contributes to Farmworker Poverty and Powerlessness -- Wells Farms -- The Conditions at the Camp Are Not Great, interview of Vanessa -- CHAPTER 6. Bitter Harvest: Housing Conditions of Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers -- The History We Wrote This Summer -- CHAPTER 7. The Struggle for Health in Times of Plenty -- That Summer -- Bella Juventud/ Wonderful Youth -- CHAPTER 8. Understanding the Challenges and Potential of Migrant Students -- I Don’t Think People Give Up, interview of Sheila Payne -- CHAPTER 9. From Slavery to Cesar Chavez and Beyond: Farmworker Organizing in the United States -- Sowing Seeds for Change symposium address -- CONCLUSION. An Invocation to Act -- APPENDIX I. Developing a Syllabus on Farmworker Advocacy -- APPENDIX II. Farmworker-Related Organizations and Agencies -- APPENDIX III. Recommended Readings -- Works Cited -- Contributors -- Index
Summary: Finding fresh fruits and vegetables is as easy as going to the grocery store for most Americans—which makes it all too easy to forget that our food is cultivated, harvested, and packaged by farmworkers who labor for less pay, fewer benefits, and under more dangerous conditions than workers in almost any other sector of the U.S. economy. Seeking to end the public's ignorance and improve workers' living and working conditions, this book addresses the major factors that affect farmworkers' lives while offering practical strategies for action on farmworker issues. The contributors to this book are all farmworker advocates—student and community activists and farmworkers themselves. Focusing on workers in the Southeast United States, a previously understudied region, they cover a range of issues, from labor organizing, to the rise of agribusiness, to current health, educational, and legal challenges faced by farmworkers. The authors blend coverage of each issue with practical suggestions for working with farmworkers and other advocates to achieve justice in our food system both regionally and nationally.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Sowing Seeds for Change symposium address -- Introduction -- The Virgin of Guadalupe, interview of Carmen Tomás -- CHAPTER 1. Making Home: Culture, Ethnicity, Mattern and Religion among Farmworkers in the Southeastern United States -- Sowing Seeds for Change symposium address -- CHAPTER 2. Layers of Loss: Migrants, Small Farmers, and Agribusiness -- Life on Easy Street -- CHAPTER 3. Standing Idly By: ‘‘Organized’’ Farmworkers in South Florida during the Depression and World War II -- Rifaré mi suerte/ I’ll Raffle My Luck interview of Humberto Zapata Alvizo -- CHAPTER 4. H-2A Guestworker Program: A Legacy of Importing Agricultural Labor -- Testimony at Hearing before the Commission on Agricultural Workers -- CHAPTER 5. Farmworker Exceptionalism under the Law: How the Legal System Contributes to Farmworker Poverty and Powerlessness -- Wells Farms -- The Conditions at the Camp Are Not Great, interview of Vanessa -- CHAPTER 6. Bitter Harvest: Housing Conditions of Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers -- The History We Wrote This Summer -- CHAPTER 7. The Struggle for Health in Times of Plenty -- That Summer -- Bella Juventud/ Wonderful Youth -- CHAPTER 8. Understanding the Challenges and Potential of Migrant Students -- I Don’t Think People Give Up, interview of Sheila Payne -- CHAPTER 9. From Slavery to Cesar Chavez and Beyond: Farmworker Organizing in the United States -- Sowing Seeds for Change symposium address -- CONCLUSION. An Invocation to Act -- APPENDIX I. Developing a Syllabus on Farmworker Advocacy -- APPENDIX II. Farmworker-Related Organizations and Agencies -- APPENDIX III. Recommended Readings -- Works Cited -- Contributors -- Index

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Finding fresh fruits and vegetables is as easy as going to the grocery store for most Americans—which makes it all too easy to forget that our food is cultivated, harvested, and packaged by farmworkers who labor for less pay, fewer benefits, and under more dangerous conditions than workers in almost any other sector of the U.S. economy. Seeking to end the public's ignorance and improve workers' living and working conditions, this book addresses the major factors that affect farmworkers' lives while offering practical strategies for action on farmworker issues. The contributors to this book are all farmworker advocates—student and community activists and farmworkers themselves. Focusing on workers in the Southeast United States, a previously understudied region, they cover a range of issues, from labor organizing, to the rise of agribusiness, to current health, educational, and legal challenges faced by farmworkers. The authors blend coverage of each issue with practical suggestions for working with farmworkers and other advocates to achieve justice in our food system both regionally and nationally.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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