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Book Synopsis The Farmworkers’ Journey by : Ann Aurelia Lopez
Download or read book The Farmworkers’ Journey written by Ann Aurelia Lopez and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007-06-05 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illuminating the dark side of economic globalization, this book gives an insider's view of the migrant farmworkers' binational circuit that stretches from the west central Mexico countryside to central California. Useful for all Americans, "The Farmworkers' Journey" traces the human consequences of our policy decisions.
Book Synopsis The Farmworkers' Journey by : Ann Lopez
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.
Book Synopsis Journey for Justice by : Gayle Romasanta
Download or read book Journey for Justice written by Gayle Romasanta and published by . This book was released on 2018-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, written by historian Dawn Bohulano Mabalon with writer Gayle Romasanta, richly illustrated by Andre Sibayan, tells the story of Larry Itliong's lifelong fight for a farmworkers union, and the birth of one of the most significant American social movements of all time, the farmworker's struggle, and its most enduring union, the United Farm Workers.
Book Synopsis Journey to Justice by : Georgia Hedrick
Download or read book Journey to Justice written by Georgia Hedrick and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-12 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cesar Chavez was a farmworker, a migrant farmworker over time with his family. He knew unfairness and injustice. Slowly, he decided to fight back, with all the farmworkers who shared his vision. The movement became a Union, the UFW. It would be the only voice listened to by Law. It was a long road getting to that point. This is written both in English and in Spanish, one language per page of the same illustration. This book is in full color with each page illustrated. It is 84 pages in length.
Book Synopsis The Most Costly Journey by : Sebastian Castro
Download or read book The Most Costly Journey written by Sebastian Castro and published by . This book was released on 2021-05 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Most Costly Journey is a non-fiction comics anthology of stories told by migrant Latin American farmworkers working on dairy farms in Vermont, and drawn in collaboration with cartoonists from New England (& elsewhere). It is part of a graphic medicine and ethnographic cartooning initiative aimed at addressing the mental health care needs of migrant workers on Vermont dairy farms. The volume features 19 comics adapted from stories recorded from migrant workers that address topics including, loneliness, isolation, separation, depression, substance abuse and other topics. Many of these stories are difficult, even traumatic, showing the sacrifices and struggles of the people whose marginalized labor actually drives the US agricultural system. But they're also joyful -- celebrating survival, family, community, and the ability of each storyteller to direct their own healing narrative. It includes a forward by poet Julia Alvarez, preface by Julia Doucet, introduction by cartoonist Stephen R. Bissette and an afterward by Teresa Mares and Andy Kolovos.
Book Synopsis The Farm Labor Movement in the Midwest by : W. K. Barger
Download or read book The Farm Labor Movement in the Midwest written by W. K. Barger and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-22 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC) was founded by Baldemar Velásquez in 1967 to challenge the poverty and powerlessness that confronted migrant farmworkers in the Midwest. This study documents FLOC's development through its first quarter century and analyzes its effectiveness as a social reform movement. Barger and Reza describe FLOC's founding as a sister organization of the United Farm Workers (UFW). They devote particular attention to FLOC's eight-year struggle (1978-1986) with the Campbell Soup company that led to three-way contracts for improved working conditions between FLOC, Campbell Soup, and Campbell's tomato and cucumber growers in Ohio and Michigan. This contract significantly changed the structure of agribusiness and instituted key reforms in American farm labor. The authors also address the processes of social change involved in FLOC actions. Their findings are based on extensive research among farmworkers, growers, and representatives of agribusiness, as well as personal involvement with FLOC leaders and supporters.
Book Synopsis A Wartime Journey Revisited by : Ian and Sandie Schagen
Download or read book A Wartime Journey Revisited written by Ian and Sandie Schagen and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Wartime Journey Revisited is the extraordinary blend of two accounts of the same journey, a generation removed. From father to son (and wife), the parallel accounts follow the same path seventy two years apart, both equally moving. It will appeal to history buffs, readers who love road-stories and those that enjoy a really good tale (or two!) In 1943, a young Dutchman, Pieter Schagen, fled from the Nazis. Travelling in secret, he journeyed through Holland, Belgium, France and crossed the Pyrenees. After imprisonment in Spain, he finally reached Gibraltar, and from there travelled on to Britain, where he flew for the RAF. 54 years later, Piet wrote an account of his travels for the family, titling it An Odyssey through Occupied Europe in 1943. Both lively and quirky, and horrifying in parts, it gives a glimpse of the difficulties and dangers he encountered, and the kind people who helped him at their own risk. In 2015, Piet’s son Ian fulfilled a long-standing desire to follow in his father’s footsteps. Accompanied by his wife Sandie, he traced his father’s route, aiming to find the places mentioned in Piet’s book and (if possible) descendants of those kind people who helped him. Ian and Sandie succeeded beyond their wildest expectations. The journey led them across five countries, to large cities and sprawling, remote farms. The book speaks of their excitement when they found places exactly matching Piet’s description, their occasional frustrations, and some truly inspiring and amazing triumphs.
Book Synopsis The Migrant Project by : Rick Nahmias
Download or read book The Migrant Project written by Rick Nahmias and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2008-03 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iconic photographs and the stories of the men, women, and children who work California's farms and orchards to feed America.
Book Synopsis Kings Park Psychiatric Center: a Journey Through History by : Jason Medina
Download or read book Kings Park Psychiatric Center: a Journey Through History written by Jason Medina and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-02-20 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the definitive history of the Kings Park Psychiatric Center, which at one time was the largest state hospital in New York. Located on Long Island, it occupied nearly 873 acres of land and was in operation from 1885 to 1996. At its prime, it housed up to ten thousand patients. Today, much of its former land belongs to the Nissequogue River State Park, but its many abandoned hospital buildings have become a magnet for urban explorers, ghost hunters, and scavengers.
Download or read book Life on the Farm written by and published by Dean Riggot Photography. This book was released on 2001-09-01 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of photographs, accompanied by insightful text, illustrating the changing family farms across the Minnesota landscape.
Book Synopsis Dark Harvest by : Brent K. Ashabranner
Download or read book Dark Harvest written by Brent K. Ashabranner and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an in-depth look at the arduous life of migrant agricultural workers, who travel across America to harvest the nation's fruits and vegetables.
Book Synopsis Down on the Farm and Other Places by : Mont Harris Saunderson
Download or read book Down on the Farm and Other Places written by Mont Harris Saunderson and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Human Cost of Food by : Charles D. Thompson, Jr.
Download or read book The Human Cost of Food written by Charles D. Thompson, Jr. and published by . This book was released on 2002-08-15 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers a range of issues, from labor organizing, to the rise of agribusiness, to current health, educational, and legal challenges faced by farmworkers
Book Synopsis Journeys in Time by : Elspeth Leacock
Download or read book Journeys in Time written by Elspeth Leacock and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2001 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans have always been a people on the move. Journeys in Time maps twenty journeys that have shaped our national past. These are stories of change -- of pilgrims and pioneers, soldiers and children, explorers and adventurers building new lives and finding new worlds. From a cabin boy who sailed with Columbus to a Union soldier and a young migrant farm worker, these journeys changed the lives of those who took them.
Download or read book A Farm Boy's Journey written by Bud Veer and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008-08 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis I Am Not a Tractor! by : Susan L. Marquis
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.
Book Synopsis Journey’s Lost and Found by : B. K. Parent
Download or read book Journey’s Lost and Found written by B. K. Parent and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-03-15 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the great summer fair in the capital of Sommerhjem, the evil regent has been forced to step down due to the calling of the Gylden Sirklene challenge. The future of the country now hangs in the balance. By a year from the day the challenge was called, all nine pieces of the oppgave ringe need to be delivered to the capital. Two are already there, but seven more need to be found. The street lad, Greer, is lucky to have found a job at Milkin’s Stable in the rough and tumble border town of Høyhauger, the only place he has ever known. Ignoring the stable owner’s orders to leave one evening, he hides behind a haystack. What he witnesses and what comes into his possession leads Greer to flee with his border dog pup, Kasa, and begin a perilous journey across Sommerhjem. What’s more, he is chased by numerous folks who want what he took with him. Coming to from a blow to the head, Meryl finds herself looking into the brilliant green eyes of a griff falcon who urges Meryl to follow her. With no memory of who she is, Meryl ends up partnering with a finder named Finn. What she finds in a small hole in the bluffs places her in danger. In this spellbinding fantasy, both Greer and Meryl are hunted by numerous factions who want what each one has found.
