agricultural laborers

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agricultural laborers

Cesar Chavez

a photographic essay
2010
Combines archival photographs of Cesar Chavez and the people with whom he worked with information about his life and accomplishments.

Cesar Chavez

the struggle for justice
2002
A simple biography of the man who worked to win fairer treatment of the migrant farm workers in California in the 1960s and to establish the United Farm Workers union, presented in English and Spanish.

Fruit fields in my blood

Okie migrants in the West
1992

Jessie De La Cruz

profile of a United Farm Worker
2000
Presents the life of the first woman organizer for the United Farm Workers.

Lanterns for fiesta

1973
The twelve-year-old daughter of an agricultural laborer sees hope for a better life if she can only figure a way to attend the special school opened in the barrio.

Breaking Through

2002
Having come from Mexico to California ten years ago, fourteen-year-old Francisco is still working in the fields but fighting to improve his life and complete his education.

Children for hire

the perils of child labor in the United States
2003
Provides a comprehensive examination of child labor in the United States and includes discussions on how child labor affects the economy, the dangers present to child laborers, and how child labor impacts national development.

Esperanza rising

2001
Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of the Great Depression.

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