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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.

Publisher:

University of Texas Press,

Copyright Date:

2002

Description:

xv, 337 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Migrant agricultural laborers--Southern States.
Migrant agricultural laborers--Government policy--United States.
Social advocacy--Southern States.

Other Authors:

Thompson, Charles Dillard.
Wiggins, Melinda.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-329) and index.

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.

ISBN:

9780292781788 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0292781784 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780292781771 (cloth : alk. paper)
0292781776 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)48851356

LCCN:

2002000859

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)