I hardly need to make fun of these folks around here, but I've been going at it on Twitter with the kind of leftist idiots who are outraged that Republicans are endorsing Harris. This just means both parties are the same derp, as opposed to,...
farmworkers
On September 7, 1933, cranberry workers on Cape Cod went on strike to protest their terrible wages and working conditions. Threatening the ability of Americans to have some taste to.
On May 12, 1933, the Agricultural Adjustment Act went into effect. AAA would have a dramatic and permanent transformation on the history of farm labor in America. Whether this was.
Company housing for Mexican cotton pickers on a large ranch in Corcoran, California, 1940
Tonight's film is this 1948 documentary made by the National Farm Labor Union about the terrible labor practices of DiGiorgio Farms in the San Joaquin Valley, one of the worst.
A waiter sets up a table in the outdoor dining area on Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2020, in which Gov. Gavin Newsom, who later called it a "bad mistake," attended a.
I talk frequently here about the horrible conditions of farmworkers, so I am happy to be able to highlight the paintings of Narsiso Martinez, a former farmworker himself who now paints his people and their plight. Check out this interview with Martinez at Civil Eats.
With fire season upon us and the now annual plumes of smoke everywhere, pouring into our lungs and making us forget what summer in the Northwest used to be like,.
Among the people most impacted by climate change are farmworkers. That a worker died in the recent Northwest heat wave is entirely expected. Sebastian Francisco Perez, a Guatemalan immigrant to.
Cesar Chavez, the head of the United Farm Workers Union, calls for the resignation of Walter Kintz, the first legal counsel for the state Agriculture Labor Relations Board, in Sacramento, Calif., on Sept. 16, 1975. Chavez's efforts in California culminated in landmark legislation that protected...
Friends, it's finally happened: Donald Trump has embraced populism and American workers. On the final holiday Friday of this administration, the Department of Labor issued its final rule changes for.
I've long written about working and living conditions in American agriculture. Like with everything else, COVID-19 has only exacerbated the inequality being farmworkers and consumers. The terrible, crowded, dirty, poisonous.