In the fields of the North = En los campos del norte
- Responsibility
- photographs and text by David Bacon / fotografías y texto por David Bacon ; traducción al Español: Rodolfo Hernández Corchado y Claudia Villegas Delgado.
- Language
- English, Spanish. Parallel texts in English and Spanish; translated from the Spanish.
- Edition
- Paperback Edition.
- Publication
- Tijuana, Baja California, México : El Colegio de la Frontera Norte ; Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]
- Copyright notice
- ©2016
- Physical description
- 449 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Description
Creators/Contributors
- Author/Creator
- Bacon, David, 1948- author, photographer.
- Contributor
- Hernández Corchado, Rodolfo, translator.
- Delgado, Claudia Villegas, translator.
Contents/Summary
- Publisher's summary
-
In this landmark work of photo-journalism, activist and photographer David Bacon documents the experiences of some of the hardest-working and most disenfranchised laborers in the country: the farmworkers who are responsible for making California "America's breadbasket." Combining haunting photographs with the voices of migrant farmworkers, Bacon offers three-dimensional portraits of laborers living under tarps, in trailer camps, and between countries, following jobs that last only for the harvesting season. He uncovers the inherent abuse in the labor contractor work system, and drives home the almost feudal nature of laboring in America's fields. Told in both English and Spanish, these are the stories of farmworkers exposed to extreme weather and pesticides, injured from years of working bent over for hours at a time, and treated as cheap labor. The stories in this book remind us that the food that appears on our dinner tables is the result of back-breaking labor, rampant exploitation, and powerful resilience.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)
Subjects
- Subjects
- Agricultural laborers, Foreign > United States.
- Agricultural laborers, Foreign > United States > Pictorial works.
- Foreign workers, Mexican > United States.
- Foreign workers, Mexican > United States > Pictorial works.
- Mexican American migrant agricultural laborers > United States.
- Mexican American migrant agricultural laborers > United States > Pictorial works.
- Migrant labor > United States.
- Migrant labor > United States > Pictorial works.
Bibliographic information
- Publication date
- 2016
- Copyright date
- 2016
- Title variation
- En los campos del norte
- ISBN
- 9780520296077 (paperback)
- 0520296079 (paperback)
- 9786074792409 (hardcover)
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