agricultural laborers

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.

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.

Tells the story of Cesar Chavez, a Mexican American farm worker who fought for the rights of migrant agricultural laborers and created the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA).

Francisco Jimenez, the son of Mexican immigrants, describes the challenges he faced as a student at Santa Clara University in California in the 1960s.

Presents an overview of the history of farmer and farm labor movements, and examines the specifics of such movements at various times in American history, from the Colonial Period to the early 1990s.

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.

Presents several intertwined stories of a family of Mexican American farm workers as they move from camp to camp, adding members to their family along the way.

Jim Nolan, a new member of the Communist Party, struggles to keep a cool head when he leads nine hundred migratory workers in a strike against landowners in California's apple country.