With these hands : the hidden world of migrant farmworkers today / Daniel Rothenberg.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Harcourt Brace, 1998Description: xviii, 334 p. : ill. 24 cmISBN:
  • 151002053
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HD 1525 .R743 1998
Summary: With These Hands documents the farm labor system through the presentation of a collection of voices-workers who labor in the fields, growers who manage the multi-billion dollar agricultural industry, contractors who link workers with growers, coyotes who smuggle people across the border, union organizers, lobbyists, physicians, workers' families in Mexico, farmworker children and others. The diversity of stories presents the world of migrant farmworkers as a complex social and economic system, a network of intertwined lives, showing how all Americans are bound to the struggles and contributions of our nation's farm laborers."www.shelfari.com"
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American Learning Resource American Learning Resource Aklatang Emilio Aguinaldo-Information Resource Center HD 1525 .R743 1998 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 9ALRC201100336

Includes index.

With These Hands documents the farm labor system through the presentation of a collection of voices-workers who labor in the fields, growers who manage the multi-billion dollar agricultural industry, contractors who link workers with growers, coyotes who smuggle people across the border, union organizers, lobbyists, physicians, workers' families in Mexico, farmworker children and others. The diversity of stories presents the world of migrant farmworkers as a complex social and economic system, a network of intertwined lives, showing how all Americans are bound to the struggles and contributions of our nation's farm laborers."www.shelfari.com"

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