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Title The human cost of food : farmworkers' lives, labor, and advocacy / edited by Charles D. Thompson, Jr., and Melinda F. Wiggins
Edition 1st ed
Published Austin : University of Texas Press, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 337 pages) : illustrations
Contents Making home: culture, ethnicity, and religion among farmworkers in the Southeastern United States / Alejandra Okie Holt and Sister Evelyn Mattern -- Layers of loss: migrants, small farmers, and agribusiness / Charles D. Thompson -- Standing idly by: "organized" farmworkers in South Florida during the Depression and World War II / Cindy Hahamovitch -- H-2A Guestworker Program: a legacy of importing agricultural labor / Garry G. Geffert -- Farmworker exceptionalism under the law: how the legal system contributes to farmworker poverty and powerlessness / Greg Schell -- Bitter harvest: housing conditions of migrant and seasonal farmworkers / Christopher Holden -- The struggle for health in times of plenty / Colin Austin -- Understanding the challenges and potential of migrant students / Ramiro Arceo, Joy Kusserow, and Al Wright -- From slavery to Cesar Chavez and beyond: farmworker organizing in the United States / Paul Ortiz -- An invocation to act / Melinda F. Wiggins
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Subject Migrant agricultural laborers -- Government policy -- United States
Migrant agricultural laborers -- Southern States
Social advocacy -- Southern States
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Rural.
Migrant agricultural laborers
Migrant agricultural laborers -- Government policy
Social advocacy
Landwirtschaft
Saisonarbeiter
Aufsatzsammlung
Southern States
United States
USA -- Südstaaten
Form Electronic book
Author Thompson, Charles D., Jr. (Charles Dillard), 1956-
Wiggins, Melinda
ISBN 0292798911
9780292798915