The human cost of food
Subtitle: farmworkers' lives, labor, and advocacy
By: edited by Charles D. Thompson, Jr., and Melinda F. Wiggins
Contributors: Thompson, Charles Dillard; Wiggins, Melinda
Edition: 1st ed
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Austin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 337
Subjects: Migrant agricultural laborers -- Southern States; Migrant agricultural laborers -- Government policy -- United States; Social advocacy -- Southern States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-329) and index
Table of contents: title: Making home: culture, ethnicity, and religion among farmworkers in the Southeastern United States / Alejandra Okie Holt and Sister Evelyn Mattern; title: Layers of loss: migrants, small farmers, and agribusiness / Charles D. Thompson; title: Standing idly by: "organized" farmworkers in South Florida during the Depression and World War II / Cindy Hahamovitch; title: H-2A Guestworker Program: a legacy of importing agricultural labor / Garry G. Geffert; title: Farmworker exceptionalism under the law: how the legal system contributes to farmworker poverty and powerlessness / Greg Schell; title: Bitter harvest: housing conditions of migrant and seasonal farmworkers / Christopher Holden; title: The struggle for health in times of plenty / Colin Austin; title: Understanding the challenges and potential of migrant students / Ramiro Arceo, Joy Kusserow, and Al Wright; title: From slavery to Cesar Chavez and beyond: farmworker organizing in the United States / Paul Ortiz; title: An invocation to act / Melinda F. Wiggins