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245 04 a| The human cost of food :b| farmworkers' lives, labor, and advocacy /c| edited by Charles D. Thompson, Jr., and Melinda F. Wiggins.;

250 a| 1st ed.;

260 a| Austin :b| University of Texas Press,c| 2002.;

300 a| xv, 337 pages :b| illustrations ;c| 24 cm;

336 a| text2| rdacontent;

337 a| unmediated2| rdamedia;

338 a| volume2| rdacarrier;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-329) and index.;

505 0 a| 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.;

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700 1 a| Thompson, Charles D.,c| Jr.q| (Charles Dillard),d| 1956-=| ^A523352;

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The human cost of food : farmworkers' lives, labor, and advocacy / edited by Charles D. Thompson, Jr., and Melinda F. Wiggins.

Other author	Thompson, Charles D., Jr. (Charles Dillard), 1956-
Other author	Wiggins, Melinda.
Format	Book
Edition	1st ed.
Publication Info	Austin : University of Texas Press, 2002.
Description	xv, 337 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects	Migrant agricultural laborers--Southern States. Migrant agricultural laborers--Government policy. --United States. Social advocacy--Southern States.

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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-329) and index.
LCCN	2002000859
ISBN	0292781776 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN	0292781784 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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