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With These Hands
Daniel Rothenberg
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Description for With These Hands
Paperback. Documenting the farm labour system, this text presents a collection of voices - from workers who labour in the fields, to union organizers and lobbyists. The stories present the world of migrant farmworkers as a complex social and economic system. Num Pages: 352 pages, 35 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: JHBL; JHM; KCFM; KNAC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 467.
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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520227347
SKU
V9780520227347
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99-2
About Daniel Rothenberg
Daniel Rothenberg is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan.
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