CHAPTER 4. H-2A Guestworker Program: A Legacy of Importing Agricultural Labor

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Abbreviations ix
4. Preface xiii
5. Acknowledgments xvii
6. Sowing Seeds for Change symposium address 1
7. Introduction 2
8. The Virgin of Guadalupe, interview of Carmen Tomás 21
9. CHAPTER 1. Making Home: Culture, Ethnicity, Mattern and Religion among Farmworkers in the Southeastern United States 22
10. Sowing Seeds for Change symposium address 53
11. CHAPTER 2. Layers of Loss: Migrants, Small Farmers, and Agribusiness 55
12. Life on Easy Street 87
13. CHAPTER 3. Standing Idly By: ‘‘Organized’’ Farmworkers in South Florida during the Depression and World War II 89
14. Rifaré mi suerte/ I’ll Raffle My Luck interview of Humberto Zapata Alvizo 111
15. CHAPTER 4. H-2A Guestworker Program: A Legacy of Importing Agricultural Labor 113
16. Testimony at Hearing before the Commission on Agricultural Workers 137
17. CHAPTER 5. Farmworker Exceptionalism under the Law: How the Legal System Contributes to Farmworker Poverty and Powerlessness 139
18. Wells Farms 167
19. The Conditions at the Camp Are Not Great, interview of Vanessa 168
20. CHAPTER 6. Bitter Harvest: Housing Conditions of Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers 169
21. The History We Wrote This Summer 195
22. CHAPTER 7. The Struggle for Health in Times of Plenty 198
23. That Summer 219
24. Bella Juventud/ Wonderful Youth 220
25. CHAPTER 8. Understanding the Challenges and Potential of Migrant Students 222
26. I Don’t Think People Give Up, interview of Sheila Payne 247
27. CHAPTER 9. From Slavery to Cesar Chavez and Beyond: Farmworker Organizing in the United States 249
28. Sowing Seeds for Change symposium address 277
29. CONCLUSION. An Invocation to Act 278
30. APPENDIX I. Developing a Syllabus on Farmworker Advocacy 299
31. APPENDIX II. Farmworker-Related Organizations and Agencies 307
32. APPENDIX III. Recommended Readings 313
33. Works Cited 317
34. Contributors 331
35. Index 333