| With These Hands: The Hidden World of Migrant Farmworkers Today Contributor(s): Rothenberg, Daniel (Author), Coles, Robert (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0520227344 ISBN-13: 9780520227347 Publisher: University of California Press OUR PRICE: $31.63 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2000 Annotation: "What makes this book so important is that it allows us to see into the lives of those who do the stoop labor to put that lovely salad on our tables. "With These Hands" is a unique and valuable documentary work that skillfully presents the voices of laborers and others, helping us to understand our connection to the world of America's farmworkers."--Studs Terkel |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Labor & Industrial Relations - Technology & Engineering | Agriculture - General - Social Science | Anthropology - General |
| Dewey: 331.544 |
| LCCN: 00028711 |
| Physical Information: 1.07" H x 6.68" W x 8.9" (1.21 lbs) 352 pages |
| Themes: - Demographic Orientation - Rural |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |