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Partial Bibliography: Books About Farmworkers
Note:
The following list of books, listed alphabetically by author, does
not include every book about farmworkers. Nor does it include
academic reports or monographs, government reports, or articles;
some of these materials are listed under
web links.
Adams,
Marilyn with Mary Kay Shanley. Rhythm of the Seasons: A
Journey Beyond Loss, illustrated by Paul Micich, Foreward by C.
Everett Koop, 1997, Stay-Kris, Inc. (Iowa)
(by founder of Farm Safety 4 Just Kids)
Ahabranner, Brent K. Dark Harvest : Migrant Farmworkers in
America,
Illustrated by Paul Conklin, 1993, Linnet Books (award-winning book
for young adults)
Alkin,
S. Beth. Voices from the Fields: Children of Migrant Farmworkers
Tell Their Stories, 1993 Little, Brown (Photos & interviews)
Allensworth, Elaine and Refugio Rochín. The Mexicanization of
Rural
California,
199-, Julian Samora Research Institute, Mich. State Univ.
Thomas
Almaguer, Racial Domination and Class Conflict in Capitalist
Agriculture: The
Oxnard
Sugar Beet Workers' Strike of 1903, 1983
Altman,
Linda Jacobs. Amelia's Road. Illustrated by Enrique Sanchez.
Lee and Low Books, 1993 (book for grades K-2 about child of
farmworkers)
American
Industrial Hygiene Association, Hazardous Harvests: Exploring
Occupational and Environmental Health and Safety Hazards of U.S.
Farmworkers, 2001 AIHA Press (based on conference roundtable
moderated by Jim Albers), photographs by David Bacon
Anaya,
Rudolfo. Elegy on the Death of Cesar Chavez.
Illustrated by Gaspar Enriquez. 2000. Cinco Puntos Press, El Paso,
Texas.
Baldwin,
Sidney. Poverty and Politics: The Rise and Fall of the Farm
Security Administration, 1968, Univ. of North Carolina Press
Barger,
W.K., and Ernesto Reza. The Farm Labor Movement in the Midwest:
Social Change and Adaptation among Migrant Farmworkers, 1994,
U.Texas Press
Barrio,
Raymond. The Plum Pickers, 1969, Ventura Press (novel)
Beaver,
Mary Ellen,
a longtime paralegal for migrant farmworkers on the east coast, is
featured in a chapter of Marie Cieri and Claire Peeps (eds),
Activists Speak Out: Reflections on the Pursuit of Change in
America, Palgrave Macmillan; (February 2001)
Bishop,
C.E. (ed.), Farm labor in the United States, 1968, Columbia
U.
Briggs,
Vernon M., Jr. Chicanos and Rural Poverty, 1973, Johns
Hopkins U. Press
Brill,
Steven. The Teamsters, 1978, Simon & Schuster
Buirski,
Nancy. Earth Angels : Migrant Children in America,
Introduction by Henry Cisneros, afterword by Rubén Blades, 1995
Pomegranate Artbooks/Chameleon (colorphotographs)
Calavita,
Kitty. Inside the State: The Bracero Program, Immigration, and
the INS, 1992, Routledge
Louis
Cantor. A Prologue to the Protest Movement: The Missouri
Sharecropper Roadside Demonstrations of 1939, 1969, Duke Univ.
Press
Cieri,
Marie and Claire Peeps, Activists Speak Out: Reflections on the
Pursuit of Change in America, 2001, Palgrave -- St. Martin's
Press (chapter featuring Mary Ellen Beaver, farmworker paraglegal)
Cedeno, Maria E. Cesar Chavez: Labor Leader.
The
Millbrook Press, 1993 (book for grades 3-4)
Chan,
Sucheng, This Bittersweet Soil: The Chinese in California
Agriculture, 1860-1910
Coalson,
George. Development of the Migratory Farm Labor System in Texas
1900-1954, 1977, R & E Pub
Coles,
Robert. Migrants, Sharecroppers, Mountaineers: Volume II of
Children in Crisis, 1967, Atlantic
Coles,
Robert. Uprooted Children: The Early Life of Migrant Farm
Workers, 1970, U. of Pittsburgh Press
Commission for Labor Cooperation, North American Agreement on Labor
Cooperation, Labor Relations Law in North America,
Secretariat of the Commission for Labor Cooperation, Washington,
D.C., 2000 (also available in Spanish and French)
Conover,
Ted. Coyotes: A Journey Through the Secret World of America's
Aliens, 1987, Vintage
David E.
Conrad. The Forgotten Farmer: The Story of Sharecroppers in the
New Deal, 1965, Univ of Ill. Press
Craig,
Richard B. The Bracero Program: Interest Groups and Foreign
Policy, 1971, U. Texas Press
Daniel,
Cletus. Bitter Harvest: A History of California Farmworkers
1870-1941, 1981, Cornell U. Press
Daniel,
Cletus. "Cesar Chavez," in Labor Leaders in Industrial America,
M. Dubofsky and W. Van Tine (Eds.) (University of Illinois Press,
1987)
Daniel,
Pete. The Shadow of Slavery: Peonage in the South, 1901-1969,
1972, U.Ill. Press
de Ruiz,
Dana Catharine, and Richard Larios. La Causa: The Migrant
Farmworkers' Story, Illustrated by Rudy Gutierrez. Austin: Steck-Vaughn
Publishers, 1993 (book for grades 3-5 about efforts of Cesar Chavez
and Dolores Huerta)
Drake,
Susan Samuels Drake, Fields of Courage: Remembering Cesar Chavez
& the People Whose Labor Feeds Us, Many Names Press, 1999
Dunbar,
Anthony P., Against the Grain: Southern Radicals and Prophets,
1981, Univ. Press of Virginia
Dunne,
John Gregory. Delano: The Story of the California Grape Strike,
1967, Farrar Straus Nooonday Press
Edid,
Maralyn. Farm Labor Organizing: Prospects & Trends, 1994, ILR
(Cornell) Press
Emmet,
Herman Leroy. Fruit Tramps : A Family of Migrant Farmworkers,
199- (photos)
Ferriss,
Susan and Ricardo Sandoval. The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez
and the Farmworkers Movement, 1997 Harcourt Brace (Companion to
PBS Documentary)
J. .L
Findeis, A. Vandeman, J. Larson, and J. Runyan (eds.), The
Dynamics of Hired Farm Labour: Constraints and Community Responses,
2002, CABI Publishing (Great Britain) (papers from USDA-sponsored
conference on farm labor in US, Canada and Australia)
Flor Ada,
Alma and F. Isabel Campoy, Paths: Jose Marti, Frida Kahlo and
Cesar Chavez, 2000, Santillana USA Publishing Co. (for young
readers, illustrated, originally published in Spanish)
Foley,
Neil. The White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in
Texas Cotton Culture, 1997, U.Calif.Press
Friedland, Wm. H. and Dorthy Nelkin. Migrant: Agricultural
Workers in America's Northeast, 1971, Holt Rinehart (Foreward by
Sen. Mondale)
Galarza,
Ernesto. Farm Workers and Agribusiness in California 1947-1960,
1977 U.Notre Dame Press
Galarza,
Ernesto. Merchants of Labor: The Mexcian Bracero Story,1964,
Rosicrucian Press (a classic)
Galarza,
Ernesto. Spiders in the House and Workers in the Field, 1976,
U.Notre Dame Press
Gamboa,
Erasmo. Mexican Labor and World War II : Braceros in the Pacific
Northwest, 1942-1947, 2000, Columbia Classics reissue
Garner,
Claud, Wetback, novel, 1947, Coward-McCann
Goldfarb, Ronald L. Migrant Farm Workers: A Caste of Despair,
1981, Iowa St. U. Press (the author was the court-appointed monitor
in a case against the Dept. of Labor’s discrimination against
farmworkers in job referrals and other services)
Griffiths, David and Ed Kissam and Jeronimo Camposeco. Working
Poor: Farmworkers in the United States, 1995, Temple Univ. Press
(includes studies used in the Report of the U.S. Commission on
Agricultural Workers in 1992)
Griswold
del Castillo, Richard and Richard A.Garcia. Cesar Chavez: A
Triumph of Spirit, 1995 U. Okla. Press
Guerin-Gonzales, Camille. Mexican Workers and American Dreams:
Immigration, Repatriation, and California Farm Labor, 1994,
Rutgers U. Press
Hahamovitch, Cindy. The Fruits of Their Labor: Atlantic Coast
Farmworkers and the Making of Migrant Poverty 1870-1945, 1997,
UNC Press
Hahamovitch, Cindy.
"'In America Life is Given Away': Jamaican
Farmworkers and the Making of Agricultural Immigration Policy," in
The Countryside in the Age of the Modern State: Political
Histories of Rural America. Eds. Catherine McNicol Stock and
Robert D. Johnston. Cornell U. Press,
2001. 134-160.
The book
also includes a chapter by Stephen Pitti, "Ernesto Galarza,
Mexican Immigration, and Farm Labor Organizing in Postwar
California," p. 161
Heaps,
Willard A. Wandering Workers: The Story of American Migrant Farm
Workers and Their Problems, 1962, Crown Young Adult Books
Herrera-Sobek,
Maria. The Bracero Experience : Elitelore Versus Folklore,
1979 & 1987, UCLA Latin American Studies V 43
Herbert
Hill (NAACP), No Harvest for the Reaper: The Story of the
Migratory Agricultural Worker,
New York, n.d. 45p. (AIF Migratory. Labor- U.S.)
Human
Rights Watch, Fingers to the Bone: United States Failure to
Protect Child Farmworkers, Human Rights Watch 2000
Human
Rights Watch, Unfair Advantage: Workers' Freedom of Association
in the United States Under International Human Rights Standards,
2001, Human Rights Watch (includes case studies on agricultural
workers under the H-2A guestworker program in North Carolina and
apple industry workers in Washington State)
Ishikawa, Yoshimi, Strawberry Road, trans. by Eve Zimmerman,
1991, Kodansha Int'l (Tokyo)
Jenkins,
J. Craig. The Politics of Insurgency: The Farm Worker Movement in
the 1960s, 1985, Columbia University Press
Jimenez,
Francisco. The Circuit : Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child,
1997, U.N.M. Press
Johnson,
Charles S., Edwin R. Embree and Will W. Alexander, The Collapse
of Cotton Tenancy, 1935, Univ. of North Carolina Press
Jones,
Jacqueline. Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work,
and the Family, from Slavery to the Present, 1985, Vintage
Jones,
Jacqueline. The Dispossessed: America's Underclasses from the
Civil War to the Present, 1992, Basic Books (see esp. ch. 6 on
Florida farmworkers)
Howard
Kester, Revolt Among the Sharecroppers, 1969, Ayer Co Pub;
reissued 1997 U.Tenn. Press (paperback, in print)
Kirstein, Peter N., Anglo over Bracero: A History of the Mexican
Worker in the United States from Roosevelt to Nixon, 1977, R & E
Associates
Kolpan,
Steven. A Sense of Place: An Intimate Portrait of the Niebaum-Coppola
Winery and the Napa Valley, 1999, Routledge (some info on Napa's
past anti-union tactics)
Kushner,
Long Road to Delano, 1975, Internat'l Pub.
Levy,
Jacques. Cesar Chavez: Autobiography of La Causa, 1975, W.W.
Norton
Linder,
Marc, Void Where Prohibited Revisited: The Trickle-Down
Effect of OSHA's At-Will Bathroom-Break Regulation, Fanpihua
Press, Iowa City, 2003
Linder,
Marc, The Autocratically Flexible Workplace: A History of
Overtime Regulation in the United States, Fanpihua Press, Iowa
City 2002
Linder,
Marc, "Moments Are the Elements of Profit": Overtime and the
DeRegulation of Working Hours Under the Fair Labor Standards Act,
Fanpihua Press, Iowa City, 2000
Linder,
Marc. Migrant Workers and Minimum Wages : Regulating the
Exploitation of Agricultural Labor in the United States, 1992,
Westview Press
London,
Joan and Henry Anderson, So Shall Ye Reap: The Story of Cesar
Chavez and the Farmworkers’ Movement, 1970, Crowell
Maciel,
David R., "Mexican Migrant Workers in the United States," in James
C. Foster, ed., American Labor in the Southwest, Tucson:
University of Arizona Press, 1982
Magat,
Richard, Unlikely Partners: Philanthropic Foundations and the
Labor Movement, 1999, ILR Press, Cornell Univ. Press 1999
(chap. 7 focuses on farmworkers)
Maril,
Robert Lee. Poorest of Americans: The Mexican-Americans of the
Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas, 1989, U. Notre Dame Press
Martin,
Philip L. Promises to Keep: Collective Bargaining in California
Agriculture, 1996, Iowa State U. Press (awarded the Richard A.
Lester Prize for the Outstanding Book in Labor Economics and
Industrial Relations)
Martin
Philip L. and W. Huffman, J.E. Taylor, R. Emerson, R.I. Rochin
(eds.). Immigration Reform and U.S. Agriculture, 1995, U.
Calif. Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources 1995 (includes
studies used in the Report of the U.S. Commission on Agricultural
Workers in 1992)
Martin,
Philip L. and David A. Martin, The Endless Quest : Helping
America's Farm Workers, 1994, Westview Press (focused on federal
programs assisting farmworkers in education, nutrition, health and
job training)
Mathiessen, Peter. Sal Si Puedes: Cesar Chavez and the New
American Revolution, 1969, Dell
McConnell, Grant. The Decline of Agrarian Democracy, 1953
U.Calif. Press
McGregor, Ann (ed.), Remembering Cesar: The Legacy of Cesar
Chavez, Photos by George Elfie Ballis, Quill Driver Books 2000
(collection of 46 remembrances)
McWilliams, Carey. Factories in the Field: The Story of Migratory
Farm Labor in California, 1940, Little, Brown; March 2000 Univ.
of Calif. Press (a classic muckraking nonfiction work)
McWilliams, Carey. Ill Fares the Land: Migrants and Migratory
Labor in the United States, 1942, Little, Brown (national-level
follow up to California-based Factories in the Field)
Meister,
Dick and Anne Loftus, A Long Time Coming: The Struggle to
Unionize America’s Farm Workers, 1970 Macmillan
Mitchell, Don. The Lie of the Land: Migrant Workers and the
California Landscape, 1996, U.Minn. Press (geographical focus)
Mitchell, H.L., Mean Things Happening in this Land: The Life
and Times of H.L. Mitchell, 1979 Allanheld Osmun
Moore,
Truman. The Slaves We Rent, 1965, Random House
Munoz
Ryan, Pam, Esperanza Rising, 2000, Scholastic (262 pages for
ages 9-12 --about child migrant worker, loosely based on Depression
era experiences of author’s grandmother)
Nelkin,
Dorothy. On the Season: Aspects of the Migrant Labor System,
1970, Cornell U. Press
Reisler,
Mark. By the Sweat of their Brow: Mexican Immigrant Labor in the
United States, 1900-1940, 1976, Greenwood Press, 1976
Riley,
Nano, Florida's Farmworkers in the Twenty-first Century,
Photos by Davida Johns, Foreword by Raymond Arsenault and Gary R.
Mormino (eds of the Florida History and Culture Series) Univ. Press
of Florida, 2002
Rothenberg, Daniel, With These Hands: The Hidden World of
Migrant Farmworkers Today, 1998, Harcourt Brace
Rudge,
Mary R. (ed.), Reaping: Poems, Cries, Chants, Tributes, Sonfs,
for the farmworkers!, COCONO (Calif.) 1977
Ruiz,
Vicki L., Cannery Women, Cannery Lives: Mexican Women,
Unionization, and the California Food Processing, 1987, U.N.M
Press
Samora,
Julian, Los Mojados: The Wetback Story, 1971, U.Notre Dame
Press
Saunders, Lyle and Olen E. Leonard, The Wetback in the lower Rio
Grande Valley of Texas, 1951, U. Texas Press
Schlosser, Eric, Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, And Cheap Labor In
The American Black Market (Houghton Mifflin 2003) (includes
updated piece on California strawberry pickers from Atlantic Monthly
magazine)
Schlosser, Eric, Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the
All-American Meal, HarperCollins, 2001/2002
Scruggs,
Otey M., Braceros, "Wetbacks," and the Farm Labor Problem:
Mexican Agricultural labor in the United States, 1942-1954,
1988, Garland Pub.
Shotwell,
Louisa R., The Harvesters: The Story of the Migrant People,
1961, Doubleday (Author worked with Nat'l Council of Churches)
Stein,
Walter J. California and the Dust Bowl Migration, 1973,
Greenwood Press
Steinbeck, John. In Dubious Battle, 1936, Covici-Friede
(strike novel)
Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath, 1939, Viking (a
classic, Nobel prize winning fiction work)
Steinbeck, John. The Harvest Gypsies: On the Road to the Grapes
of Wrath, 1988 Heday Bks. (reprint of 1936 S.F. News nonfiction
series which led to Grapes of Wrath)
Street,
Richard Steven. Organizing for Our Lives: New Voices from Rural
Communities, 1992, New Sage Press and CRLA Foundation, Foreword
by Cesar Chavez, interviews by Samuel Orozco, photos by Street
(published on 25th anniversary of California Rural Legal
Assistance)
Taylor,
J. Edward, Philip Martin, and Michael Fix. Poverty Amid
Prosperity: Immigration and the Changing Face of Rural California,
1997, Urban Institute Press
Taylor,
Ronald B. Sweatshops in the Sun: Child Labor on the Farm,
1973, Beacon (under auspices of Unitarian Church, with foreward by
Carey McWilliams)
Thomas,
Robert J. Citizenship, Gender, and Work: Social Organization of
Industrial Agriculture, 1985, U. Calif.
Thompson, Charles D. and Melinda Wiggins (eds.), The Human Cost
of Food: Farmworkers' Lives, Labor, and Advocacy, Univ. of
Texas, Aug. 2002
Tywoniak,
Frances Esquibel and Mario T. Garcia. Migrant Daughter: Coming
of Age as a Mexican American Woman, 2000 Univ. of Calif. Press
Valdés,
Dennis Nodín. Al Norte: Agricultural Workers in the Great Lakes
Region, 1917-1970, 1991 U. Texas Press
Weber,
Devra. Dark Sweat, White Gold: California Farm Workers, Cotton,
and the New Deal, 1994, U.Calif.Press
Wilkinson, Alec. Big Sugar: Seasons in the Cane Fields of Florida,
1989, Alfred A. Knopf (originally in New Yorker magazine; won RFK
Memorial Book Award)
Zamora, Emilio.
The World of the Mexican Worker in Texas, 1993, Texas A&M U.
Pres.
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