基本説明
From labor organizing to the rise of agribusiness, to current health, educational, and legal challenges faced by farmworkers.
Full Description
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.
Contents
List of Abbreviations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Lucas Benitez: Sowing Seeds for Change symposium address
Charles D. Thompson Jr.: Introduction
Wendy Daniels Ibarra: The Virgin of Guadalupe, interview of Carmen Tomás
Alejandra Okie Holt and Sister Evelyn Mattern: Chapter 1. Making Home: Culture, Ethnicity, and Religion among Farmworkers in the Southeastern United States
Lucas Benitez: Sowing Seeds for Change symposium address
Charles D. Thompson Jr.: Chapter 2. Layers of Loss: Migrants, Small Farmers, and Agribusiness
Rachel LaCour: Life on Easy Street
Cindy Hahanovitch: Chapter 3. Standing Idly By: "Organized" Farmworkers in South Florida during the Depression and World War II
Joe Bayby: Rifaré mi suerte/I'll Raffle My Luck, interview of Humberto Zapata Alvizo
Garry C. Geffert: Chapter 4. H-2A Guestworker Program: A Legacy of Importing Agricultural Labor
Roman Rodriguez: Testimony at Hearing before the Commission on Agricultural Workers
Greg Schell: Chapter 5. Farmworker Exceptionalism under the Law: How the Legal System Contributes to Farmworker Poverty and Powerlessness
Rachel Avery: Wells Farms
Kris Adams: The Conditions at the Camp Are Not Great, interview of Vanessa
Christopher Holden: Chapter 6. Bitter Harvest: Housing Conditions of Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers
Anonymous: The History We Wrote This Summer
Colin Austin: Chapter 7. The Struggle for Health in Times of Plenty
Marcella Hurtado Gomez: That Summer
Gloria Velasquez: Bella Juventud/Wonderful Youth
Ramiro Arceo, Joy Kusserow, and Al Wright: Chapter 8. Understanding the Challenges and Potential of Migrant Students
Melinda Steele: I Don't Think People Give Up, interview of Sheila Payne
Paul Ortiz: Chapter 9. From Slavery to Cesar Chavez and Beyond: Farmworker Organizing in the United States
Lucas Benitez: Sowing Seeds for Change symposium address
Melinda F. Wiggins: 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
