El salario anual promedio de los trabajadores agrícolas es de $11,000. Son el segundo grupo de trabajadores con el salario más bajo en los Estados Unidos.
Lecturas recomendadas
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Materiales por tema
Agricultura | Educación | Literatura y teatro | Organización comunitaria y sindicatos | Inmigración y globalización | Fuentes primarias
Agricultura
After the Harvest: The Plight of Older Farmworkers | American Association of Retired Persons | 1990
Big Sugar: Seasons in the Cane Fields of Florida | Wilkinson, Alec | Random House, New York, NY| 1989
Corporate Reapers: The Book of Agribusiness | Krebs, A.V. | 1992 (SAF)
Dark Harvest: Migrant Farmworkers in America | Ashabranner, B. | 1985
Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States | Holmes, Seth M. | Univ. of California Press | 2013
Fruit Tramps: A Family of Migrant Farmworkers | Emmet, H. | 1989
Labor and the Locavore: The Making of a Comprehensive Food Ethic | Gray, Margaret | Univ. of California Press | 2013
Migrants, Sharecroppers, Mountaineers: Volume II of Children of Crisis
Coles, Robert | Atlantic, Little and Brown, New York, NY | 1967
Reflections of a Former Migrant | Judson, Horace | Maryland State Department of Education | Baltimore, Maryland | 1978
Smoke Ring: The Politics of Tobacco | Taylor, Peter | Pantheon Books, New York, NY | 1984
Sweatshops in the Sun | Taylor, Ronald B. | Beacon Press, Boston, MA | 1975
The Agrarian Origins of American Capitalism | Kulikoff, Allan | University Press of Virginia, Charlottsville, VA | 1992
The Human Cost of Food: Farmworkers' Lives, Labor, and Advocacy | Charles D. Thompson, Jr., and Melinda F. Wiggins ed. | University of Texas Press | 2002
Them Dark Days: Slavery in the American Rice Swamps | Dusinberre, William | Oxford University Press, Cary, NC | 1996
The Fruits of Their Labor: Atlantic Coast Farmworkers and the Making of Migrant Poverty, 1870-1945 | Hahamovitch, Cindy | University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC | 1997
The Shadow of Slavery: Peonage in the South, 1901-1969 | Daniel, Pete | Oxford University Press | Cary, NC | 1973
To the Promised Land | Light, Ken | Aperture Foundation Inc | New York, NY | 1988
"Undocumented Female Labor in the United States Southwest: An Essay on Migration, Consciousness, Oppression and Struggle" In Between Border: Essays on Mexicana/Chicana History | Arguelles, Lourdes | Del Castillo, ed. A.R. Floricanto Press |1990
Voices From the Fields: Children of Migrant Farmworkers Tell Their Stories | Atkin, S, Beth | Little, Brown and Company | New York, NY | 1993
With These Hands | DiPerna, Paul | The Pilgrim Press | Cleveland, OH | 1986
With These Hands: The Hidden World of Migrant Farmworkers Today | Rothenberg, Daniel | Harcourt Brace and Company | New York, NY | 1998
Educación
Learning the Possible: Mexican American Students Moving from the Margins of Life to New Ways of Being | Reyes, Reynaldo | Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press | 2013
Scholars in the Field: The Challenges of Migrant Education | Salinas, Cinthia, Ed.; Franquiz, Maria E. (Editors) | AEL, Inc., Charleston, WV | 2004
Inmigración y globalización
Borderlands: La Frontera | Anzaldua, Gloria | Aunt Lute Books, San Francisco, CA | 1987
Diary of an Undocumented Immigrant | Perez, Ramon | Arte Publico Press, Houston TX | 1991
Identidad y Fronteras (Borders and Identity) | Smithsonian Institute, Center for Folklore Programs and Cultural Studies | Washington DC | 1996
Illegal Immigration in America: A Reference Handbook | Haines, David W. (Editor) and Rosenblum, Karen Elaine. (Editor) | Greenwood Publishing Group, Westport CT | 1999
Illegal People: How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants | Bacon, David | Beacon Press | 2008
Shadowed Lives: Undocumented Immigrants in American Society | Chavez, Leo R. | Harcourt Brace College Publishers, New York, NY | 1998
Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System | Patel, Raj | Melville House Publishing |2008
The Children of NAFTA:Labor Wars on the U.S./Mexico Border |
Bacon, David | University of California Press | 2004
The Handbook of International Migration: The American Experience | Hirschman, Charles. (Editor), Dewind, Josh. (Editor) and Kasinitz, Philip. (Editor) | Russell Sage Foundation | 1999
The Cost of Your $hirt | Swenson, Mary | Resource Center of the Americas | 1997
Women Working the NAFTA Food Chain: Women, Food & Globalization | Barndt, Deborah (editor) | Published by Second Story Press | Toronto | 1999
Literatura y teatro
Luis Valdez Early Works: Actos, Bernabe and Pensamiento Serpentino | Valdez, Luis | Arte Publico Pr | 1990
Cajas De Carton/ The Circuit: Stories From the Life of a Migrant Child |
Jimenez, Francisco | Sandpiper | 2002
Slammin' Tar | Foster, Cecil | Published by Random House of Canada Ltd. | Toronto | 1998
Theater of the Oppressed | Boal, Augusto | Theatre Communications Group | 1993
This Migrant Earth | Rivera, Tomas | Arte Publico Press | Houston TX | 1987
Tomas Rivera: The Complete Works | Rivera, Tomas | Arte Publico Press, | Houston TX | 1992
...Y no se lo trago la tierra (...And The Earth Did Not Devour Him) | Rivera, Tomas | Arte Publcio Press | Houston TX | 1992
Organización comunitaria y sindicatos
A Long Time Coming: The Struggle to Unionize America's Farm Workers | Meister, Dick and Loftis, Ann MacMillan | New York, NY | 1977
Basta! Land and the Zapatista Rebellion in Chiapas | Collier, George | Institute for Food Development Policy, Oakland, CA | 1994
Bitter Harvest: A History of California Farmworkers, 1870-1941 | Daniel, Cletus E. | Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY |1981
Cesar Chavez: Autobiography of La Causa | Levy, Jacques | Norton, New York, NY | 1975
Chicano: The History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement | Rosales, Arturo F. | Arte Publico Press, Houston TX | 1997
Dolores Huerta: Woman, Organizer, and Symbol In California History, vol. 72, no. 1 | Garcia, Richard A. | 1993
Factories in the Field: The Story of Migratory Farm Labor in California | McWilliams, Carey | Archon Books, Hamden, CT | 1969 (c1939)
Forged Under The Sun: The Life of Maria Elena Lucas | Buss, Ran Leeper (ed.) | The University of Michigan Press, East Lansing, MI | 1993
Farmworker's Friend: The Story of Cesar Chavez | Collins, David R. | Carolrhoda Books Inc, Minneapolis, MN | 1996
Frontier College Letters: 100 Years of Teaching, Learning & Nation Building | Krotz, Larry, with Erica Martin & Philip Hernandez
Hired Hands and Plowboys: Farm Labor in the Midwest, 1815-1860 | Schob, David | University of Illinois Press, Champaign IL | 1975
The Maya of Morganton: Work and Community in the Nuevo New South | Fink, Leon | University of North Carolina Press | 2003
Our Lady of Guadalupe: Faith and Empowerment Among Mexican-American Women | Rodriguez, Jeannette | University of Texas Press | 1994
Sal Si Puedes: Cesar Chavez and the New American Revolution | Matthiessen, Peter | Random House, New York, NY | 1969
Spiders in the House and Workers in the Field | Galarza, Ernesto | University of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame, IN | 1970
The Populist Moment: A Short History of the Agrarian Revolt in America | Goodwyn, Lawrence | Oxford University Press, Cary NC | 1978
"To Hell with Good Intentions." In Combining Service and Learning: Cross Cultural Learning | Illich, Ivan | National Society for Internships and Experiential Education. Kendall, Jane, ed. | 1968
Tobacco and Slaves: The Development of Southern Cultures in the Chesapeake, 1680-1800 | Kulikoff, Allan | University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC | 1988
The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers' Movement | Ferriss, Susan, Sandoval, Ricardo and Hembree, Diana. (Editor) | Harcourt Brace, New York, NY | 1998
The Farm Labor Movement in the Midwest: Social Change and Adaption Among Migrant Farmworkers | Barger, W,K and Reza M, Ernesto | University of Texas Press, Austin TX | 1994
"Traditional And Nontraditional Patterns of Female Activism in the United Farm Workers of America, 1962-1980." In Frontiers. Vol. XI, No. 1 | Rose, Margaret | 1990
"White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack" | McIntosh, Peggy | Peace and Freedom | July/August 1989
"Why 'Servanthood' is Bad" In The Other Side Vol. 25 No. 1 | McKnight, John | Jan/Feb. 1989
Fuentes primarias
Behind the Veil: Documenting African American History in the Jim Crow South | Oral History/Duke SCL
Emancipation Betrayed: The Hidden History of Black Organizing and White Violence in Florida from Reconstruction to the Bloody Election of 1920 (American Crossroads) | Ortiz, Paul | University of California Press | 2006
Fed Up: The High Costs of Cheap Food | Slongwhite, Dale Finley | University Press of Florida | 2014
"Labor Unionism in American Agriculture" | Bureau of Labor Statistics Bulletin #386 | 1945
Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South | Chafe, W., Gavins, R., Korstad, R., Ortiz, P. | New Press | 2008
Southern Tenant Farmers Union Papers (Microfilm) Perkins Microforms/ UNC WPA Papers, UNC Southern History Collection