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Author : United Farmworkers of Florida
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (19 download)
Download or read book United Farmworkers of Florida written by United Farmworkers of Florida and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Silvia Giagnoni
Publisher : Haymarket Books
ISBN 13 : 1608460940
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Fields of Resistance written by Silvia Giagnoni and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2011-03-29 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Gignoni tells the stories of farmworkers, mothers, priests, and plutocrats with compassion, poetry, and fierce humanity.” —Raj Patel, author of Stuffed and Starved Migrant farmworkers in the United States are routinely forced to live and work in unsafe, often desperate, conditions. In response, farmworkers in Immokalee, Florida—known as America’s tomato capital—formed the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW). Against powerful adversaries, the CIW went on to launch nationwide campaigns that have forced the corporate giants of the fast food world—McDonalds, Burger King, and Taco Bell—and grocery industries to concede to their demands for increased wages and just working conditions. As their struggle, and that of immigrants and low-wage workers everywhere, continues, Silvia Giagnoni presents their remarkable story. “Captures the brilliant, difficult, and sustained organizing work of immigrant activists against the megacorporations, such as Taco Bell, Chipotle, and Whole Foods, that profit from their labor. If there was ever any doubt that workers’ rights are human rights, this book will put the notion to rest.” —Vanessa Tait, author of Poor Workers’ Unions: Rebuilding Labor from Below “A sweet victory for social justice. A testament to the tenacity of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers.” —Katrina Vanden Heuvel, editor of the Nation “The Immokalee farmworkers’ heroic struggle for justice in the fields is an inspiring reminder of the value of hope and the power of solidarity.” —Tom Morello, guitarist, songwriter, and activist
Author : D. Marshall Barry
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Adverse Impact of Immigration on Florida's Farmworkers written by D. Marshall Barry and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Susan L. Marquis
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501714309
Total Pages : 469 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book I Am Not a Tractor! written by Susan L. Marquis and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I Am Not a Tractor! celebrates the courage, vision, and creativity of the farmworkers and community leaders who have transformed one of the worst agricultural situations in the United States into one of the best. Susan L. Marquis highlights past abuses workers suffered in Florida’s tomato fields: toxic pesticide exposure, beatings, sexual assault, rampant wage theft, and even, astonishingly, modern-day slavery. Marquis unveils how, even without new legislation, regulation, or government participation, these farmworkers have dramatically improved their work conditions. Marquis credits this success to the immigrants from Mexico, Haiti, and Guatemala who formed the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, a neuroscience major who takes great pride in the watermelon crew he runs, a leading farmer/grower who was once homeless, and a retired New York State judge who volunteered to stuff envelopes and ended up building a groundbreaking institution. Through the Fair Food Program that they have developed, fought for, and implemented, these people have changed the lives of more than thirty thousand field workers. I Am Not a Tractor! offers a range of solutions to a problem that is rooted in our nation’s slave history and that is worsened by ongoing conflict over immigration.
Author : Conny Acosta
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Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (117 download)
Download or read book The Farmworkers written by Conny Acosta and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Margaret Gibbons Wilson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Florida's Labor History written by Margaret Gibbons Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Bureau of Employment Security
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.M/5 ( download)
Download or read book Puerto Rican Farm Workers in Florida written by United States. Bureau of Employment Security and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Bureau of Employment Security
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Puerto Rican Farm Workers in Florida written by United States. Bureau of Employment Security and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 7 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Puerto Rican Farm Workers in Florida written by and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ella Schmidt
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 073913874X
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)
Download or read book The Dream Fields of Florida written by Ella Schmidt and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2009-10-29 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immigrant workers from indigenous communities who are working in low-wage jobs are often stigmatized for their origins, their status, and their poverty. For them, achieving the American Dream means overcoming the historic biases of contemporary economic, cultural, social, and political systems. The Dream Fields of Florida explores the limits of accessibility to the American Dream for Mexican-American farmworkers. Using ethnographic data from several immigrant communities in Florida, Ella Schmidt studies the intersecting and often contradicting issues of identity, citizenship, and belonging. She unravels the embedded structural inequalities of U.S. society and the ideological discourses that mask them and finds that only through playing by the rules can Mexican farmworkers be selectively granted second-class citizenship-if any at all. This book is a timely and increasingly necessary look at one of the most invisible populations in the United States, one that has been systematically ignored and continuously misrepresented. Contrary to their imposed labels as subservient 'illegal aliens,' Mexican farmworkers are the epitome of agency, embodying the American ideals that are at the basis of the (Mexican-) American Dream.
Author : Randy Shaw
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520268040
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Beyond the Fields written by Randy Shaw and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much has been written about Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers' heyday in the 1960s and '70s, but the story of their profound, ongoing influence on 21st century social justice movements has until now been left untold. This book unearths this legacy.
Author : Charles D. Thompson
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292773641
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book The Human Cost of Food written by Charles D. Thompson and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2009-01-27 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Florida Institute of Government and The Florida Atlantic University/Florida International University Joint Center for Environmental and Urban Problems
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 83 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Florida Farm Worker Study written by Florida Institute of Government and The Florida Atlantic University/Florida International University Joint Center for Environmental and Urban Problems and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Farm Credit Administration
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Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Farmer Co-ops on Florida written by United States. Farm Credit Administration and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. General Accounting Office
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Foreign Farm Workers in U.S. : Department of Labor Action Needed to Protect Florida Sugar Cane Workers written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Hands that Feed Us written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dale Finley Slongwhite
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813047617
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Fed Up written by Dale Finley Slongwhite and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One farmworker tells of the soil that would “bite” him, but that was the chemicals burning his skin. Others developed lupus, asthma, diabetes, kidney failure, or suffered myriad symptoms with no clear diagnosis. Some miscarried or had children with genetic defects, while others developed cancer. In Fed Up, Dale Slongwhite collects the nearly inconceivable and chilling oral histories of African American farmworkers whose lives, and the lives of their families, were forever altered by one of the most horrific pesticide exposure incidents in United States’ history. For decades, the farms around Lake Apopka, Florida’s third largest lake, were sprayed with chemicals ranging from the now-banned DDT to toxaphene. Among the most productive farmland in America, the fields were doused with organochlorine pesticides, also known as persistent organic pollutants; the once-clear waters of the lake turned pea green; birds, alligators, and fish died at alarming rates; and still the farmworkers planted, harvested, packed, and shipped produce all over the country, enduring scorching sun, snakes, rats, injuries, substandard housing, low wages, and the endocrine disruptors that crop dusters dropped as they toiled. Eventually, state and federal dollars were allocated to buy out and close farms to attempt land restoration, water clean up, and wildlife rehabilitation. But the farmworkers became statistics, nameless casualties history almost forgot. Here are their stories, told in their own words.
