With These Hands

by Rothenberg, Daniel

• ISBN13: 9780151002054
• ISBN10: 0151002053
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-09-01
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Summary

From Florida to Washington, from California to Maine, migrant farmworkers handpick nearly every vegetable and piece of fruit. Few labor laws protect them and their pay is often stolen by those who employ them. No one story, no single truth, can adequately express the farmworkers world; this book presents its complexity in vivid and human language.

Author Biography

Daniel Rothenberg is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan and a Fellow in the Michigan Society of Fellows

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix	(4)
Robert Coles
Preface: With These Hands	xiii
1. Farmworkers: I Earned That Name	1	(30)
2. Farmworkers: What Sort of Future Awaits Us?	31	(27)
3. Growers: Somebody on Earth Has Got to Do This Job	58	(33)
4. Contractors: Between Workers and Growers	91	(30)
5. Pasando al otro lado: The U.S./Mexico Border	121	(33)
6. Slavery in the Fields	154	(27)
7. When Main Street Looks Like Little Mexico	181	(24)
8. Farmworker Politics: Some Measure of Protection	205	(35)
9. Farmworker Unions: A Sense of Their Own Power	240	(32)
10. Migrant Children: Tell Me What a Childhood Is	272	(26)
11. Back Home: Mexican Ranchos	298	(25)
The Space between These Hands	323	(4)
Acknowledgments	327	(3)
Index	330