Read Books Online and Download eBooks, EPub, PDF, Mobi, Kindle, Text Full Free.
Download Farmworkers In California full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Farmworkers In California ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Author : Alicia Bugarin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Farmworkers in California written by Alicia Bugarin and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Steven Street
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804740920
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Photographing Farmworkers in California written by Richard Steven Street and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work of nearly every photographer of consequence since the nineteenth century is captured in this collection of photographs of California farmworkers, raising moral questions about the exploitation and colonization of an entire class of people.
Author : Gabriel Thompson
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1786632209
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (866 download)
Download or read book Chasing the Harvest written by Gabriel Thompson and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Richard Steven Street
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804738804
Total Pages : 944 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (388 download)
Download or read book Beasts of the Field written by Richard Steven Street and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by one of America's preeminent labor historians, this book is the definitive account of one of the most spectacular, captivating, complex and strangely neglected stories in Western history--the emergence of migratory farmworkers and the development of California agriculture. Street has systematically worked his way through a mountain of archival materials--more than 500 manuscript collections, scattered in 22 states, including Spain and Mexico--to follow the farmworker story from its beginnings on Spanish missions into the second decade of the twentieth century. The result is a comprehensive tour de force. Scene by scene, the epic narrative clarifies and breathes new life into a controversial and instructive saga long surrounded by myth, conjecture, and scholarly neglect. With its panoramic view spanning 144 years and moving from the US-Mexico border to Oregon, Beasts of the Field reveals diverse patterns of life and labor in the fields that varied among different crops, regions, time periods, and racial and ethic groups. Enormous in scope, packed with surprising twists and turns, and devastating in impact, this compelling, revelatory work of American social history will inform generations to come of the history of California and the nation.
Author : Ann Lopez
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520940571
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book The Farmworkers' Journey written by Ann Lopez and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007-06-05 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illuminating the dark side of economic globalization, this book gives a rare insider's view of the migrant farmworkers' binational circuit that stretches from the west central Mexico countryside to central California. Over the course of ten years, Ann Aurelia López conducted a series of intimate interviews with farmworkers and their families along the migrant circuit. She deftly weaves their voices together with up-to-date research to portray a world hidden from most Americans—a world of inescapable poverty that has worsened considerably since NAFTA was implemented in 1994. In fact, today it has become nearly impossible for rural communities in Mexico to continue to farm the land sustainably, leaving few survival options except the perilous border crossing to the United States. The Farmworkers' Journey brings together for the first time the many facets of this issue into a comprehensive and accessible narrative: how corporate agribusiness operates, how binational institutions and laws promote the subjugation of Mexican farmworkers, how migration affects family life, how genetically modified corn strains pouring into Mexico from the United States are affecting farmers, how migrants face exploitation from employers, and more. A must-read for all Americans, The Farmworkers' Journey traces the human consequences of our policy decisions.
Author : Carey McWilliams
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520224132
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Factories in the Field written by Carey McWilliams and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000-04-15 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dramatizing the misery of the dust bowl migrants hoping to find work in California agriculture, this text starts with the scandals of the Spanish land grant purchases, and goes on to examine the experience of ethnic groups that have provided labour for California's agricultural industry.
Author : Voice of Witness
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1786632195
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (866 download)
Download or read book Chasing the Harvest written by Voice of Witness and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2017-05-22 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Cletus E. Daniel
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520047228
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (472 download)
Download or read book Bitter Harvest, a History of California Farmworkers, 1870-1941 written by Cletus E. Daniel and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marco G. Prouty
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816549869
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)
Download or read book César Chávez, the Catholic Bishops, and the Farmworkers’ Struggle for Social Justice written by Marco G. Prouty and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2022-06-21 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: César Chávez and the farmworkers’ struggle for justice polarized the Catholic community in California’s Central Valley during the 1965–1970 Delano Grape Strike. Because most farmworkers and landowners were Catholic, the American Catholic Church was placed in the challenging position of choosing sides in an intrafaith conflict. Twice Chávez petitioned the Catholic Church for help. Finally, in 1969 the American Catholic hierarchy responded by creating the Bishops’ Ad Hoc Committee on Farm Labor. This committee of five bishops and two priests traveled California’s Central Valley and mediated a settlement in the five-year conflict. Within months, a new and more difficult struggle began in California’s lettuce fields. This time the Catholic Church drew on its long-standing tradition of social teaching and shifted its policy from neutrality to outright support for César Chávez and his union, the United Farmworkers (UFW). The Bishops’ Committee became so instrumental in the UFW’s success that Chávez declared its intervention “the single most important thing that has helped us.” Drawing upon rich, untapped archival sources at the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Marco Prouty exposes the American Catholic hierarchy’s internal, and often confidential, deliberations during the California farm labor crisis of the 1960s and 1970s. He traces the Church’s gradual transition from reluctant mediator to outright supporter of Chávez, providing an intimate view of the Church’s decision-making process and Chávez’s steadfast struggle to win rights for farmworkers. This lucid, solidly researched text will be an invaluable addition to the fields of labor history, social justice, ethnic studies, and religious history.
Author : Ernesto Galarza
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Farm Workers and Agri-business in California, 1947-1960 written by Ernesto Galarza and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agri-businessland; The encounters 1947-1952; The aatack on the bracero system 1952-1959; Labor relations of the Nawu; Death of a union.
Author : Seth M. Holmes
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520954793
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies written by Seth M. Holmes and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2013-06-19 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intimate examination of the everyday lives and suffering of Mexican migrants and indigenous people in our contemporary food system. An anthropologist and MD in the mold of Paul Farmer and Didier Fassin, Seth Holmes shows how market forces, anti-immigrant sentiment, and racism undermine health and healthcare. Holmes’s material is visceral and powerful. He trekked with his companions illegally 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 U.S., planted and harvested corn, picked strawberries, and accompanied sick workers to clinics and hospitals. This “embodied anthropology” deepens our theoretical understanding of how health equity is undermined by a normalization of migrant suffering, the natural endpoint of systemic dehumanization, exploitation, and oppression that clouds any sense of empathy for “invisible workers.” Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies is far more than an ethnography or supplementary labor studies text; Holmes tells the stories of food production workers from as close to the ground as possible, revealing often theoretically-discussed social inequalities as irreparable bodily damage done. This book substantiates the suffering of those facing the danger of crossing the border, threatened with deportation, or otherwise caught up in the structural violence of a system promising work but endangering or ignoring the human rights and health of its workers. All of the book award money and royalties from the sales of this book have been donated to farm worker unions, farm worker organizations and farm worker projects in consultation with farm workers who appear in the book.
Author : Lori A. Flores
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300216386
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Grounds for Dreaming written by Lori A. Flores and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known as “The Salad Bowl of the World,” California’s Salinas Valley became an agricultural empire due to the toil of diverse farmworkers, including Latinos. A sweeping critical history of how Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants organized for their rights in the decades leading up to the seminal strikes led by Cesar Chavez, this important work also looks closely at how different groups of Mexicans—U.S. born, bracero, and undocumented—confronted and interacted with one another during this period. An incisive study of labor, migration, race, gender, citizenship, and class, Lori Flores’s first book offers crucial insights for today’s ever-growing U.S. Latino demographic, the farmworker rights movement, and future immigration policy.
Author : California. Legislature. Senate. Fact Finding Committee on Labor and Welfare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book California's Farm Labor Problems written by California. Legislature. Senate. Fact Finding Committee on Labor and Welfare and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Mines
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Profile of California Farmworkers written by Richard Mines and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The University of California and the California Employment Development Department interviewed 1,286 farmworkers throughout the state in an effort to establish an up-to-date profile. Each of EDD's 42 farmworker offices interviewed 30 workers, selected in a manner to reflect the approximate number and characteristics of field- workers involved in each office area's agriculture. Most of the 1,286 farmworkers surveyed in 1983 were immigrants: 80 percent were persons born abroad who later entered the United States. Most of these immigrants - 73 percent - were born and raised in Mexico. US. born farmworkers (20 percent) and those born in other countries (7 percent) composed the rest of the sample. The picture that emerges from this survey is that settled Mexican families do most of the state's farm work for high hourly but low annual earnings. Efforts to restructure farm jobs so that fewer workers could be employed for longer periods would alleviate employer fears of labor shortages and raise farmworker earnings.
Author : Devra Weber
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520918479
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Dark Sweat, White Gold written by Devra Weber and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her incisive analysis of the shaping of California's agricultural work force, Devra Weber shows how the cultural background of Mexican and, later, Anglo-American workers, combined with the structure of capitalist cotton production and New Deal politics, forging a new form of labor relations. She pays particular attention to Mexican field workers and their organized struggles, including the famous strikes of 1933. Weber's perceptive examination of the relationships between economic structure, human agency, and the state, as well as her discussions of the crucial role of women in both Mexican and Anglo working-class life, make her book a valuable contribution to labor, agriculture, Chicano, Mexican, and California history.
Author : Carol Zabin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Mixtec Migrant Farmworkers in California Agriculture written by Carol Zabin and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marshall Ganz
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199757852
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book Why David Sometimes Wins written by Marshall Ganz and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2010-09-30 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why David Sometimes Wins tells the story of Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers' groundbreaking victory, drawing important lessons from this dramatic tale. Offering insight from a longtime movement organizer and scholar, Ganz illustrates how they had the ability and resourcefulness to devise good strategy and turn short-term advantages into long-term gains.
