I Am Not a Tractor! (eBook)

How Florida Farmworkers Took On the Fast Food Giants and Won

Susan L. Marquis (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
296 Seiten
Ilr Press (Verlag)
978-1-5017-1430-6 (ISBN)

Infos

I Am Not a Tractor! celebrates the courage, vision, and creativity of the farmworkers and community leaders who have transformed one of the worst agricultural situations in the United States into one of the best.

Susan L. Marquis highlights past abuses workers suffered in Florida's tomato fields: toxic pesticide exposure, beatings, sexual assault, rampant wage theft, and even, astonishingly, modern-day slavery. Marquis unveils how, even without new legislation, regulation, or government participation, these farmworkers have dramatically improved their work conditions.

Marquis credits this success to the immigrants from Mexico, Haiti, and Guatemala who formed the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, a neuroscience major who takes great pride in the watermelon crew he runs, a leading farmer/grower who was once homeless, and a retired New York State judge who volunteered to stuff envelopes and ended up building a groundbreaking institution. Through the Fair Food Program that they have developed, fought for, and implemented, these people have changed the lives of more than thirty thousand field workers. I Am Not a Tractor! offers a range of solutions to a problem that is rooted in our nation's slave history and that is worsened by ongoing conflict over immigration.

Autor

Susan L. Marquis is Dean of the Pardee RAND Graduate School and Vice President of Innovation at the RAND Corporation. She is the author of Unconventional Warfare.

Inhalt

List of Characters
Acronyms and Organizations
Acknowledgments
Prologue: Getting to Immokalee
1. To Beat One of Us Is to Beat Us All!
2. "Bang Your Head against the Wall Long Enough..."
3. Campaigning for Fair Food
4. Has Anyone Talked with These Guys?
5. Eyes Wide Open
6. Forging the Path by Walking It
7. "Value" Can Have a Different Meaning
8. What Difference?
9. Designed for the Future
A Note on Sources
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.12.2017
• Zusatzinfo: 22 b&w halftones
• Verlagsort: Ithaca
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Geld / Bank / Börse
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft
• Schlagworte: agricultural history • Agricultural Labor • agricultural transformation • Agriculture • Coalition of Immokalee Workers • collective bargaining • Community leadership • employee rights • Fair Food Program • farmworker abuse • Florida farmworkers • Florida farmworkers, labor activism, agriculture, agricultural labor, labor history, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, worker-driven social responsibility initiative • Florida tomato fields • Grassroots movement • groundbreaking institution • immigrant labor • immigrant stories • labor activism • Labor Economics • Labor history • labor reform • modern-day slavery • Social Justice • tomato industry • toxic pesticide exposure • wage theft • worker-driven social responsibility initiative • workers’ rights
• ISBN-10: 1-5017-1430-9 / 1501714309
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5017-1430-6 / 9781501714306