farmworkers
Farm Workforce Modernization Act’s failure reveals division in immigrant rights movement
January 11, 2023The United Farm Workers saw it as a way to win legal immigration status for undocumented field laborers.
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Ill harvest: In rural California, farmworkers fend for themselves for health care
December 9, 2022Where government and health care institutions are absent, some communities turn to grassroots action.
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Lesson from India farmers’ victory: United mass struggle can win
December 6, 2021Communist Party of India (Marxist) analyst Brinda Karat looks at how the farmers won and what this victory can teach us about mass mobilization.
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In 114-degree heat farmworkers are still at work
August 4, 2021In a field near Arvin, at the southern end of California's San Joaquin Valley, dozens of workers arrive at 5:30 in the morning. It's already over 80 degrees, and by midafternoon the temperature will top 114...
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‘Modernization’ Act good for growers, not for workers
July 21, 2021If the Senate passes, and President Biden signs, the Farm Workforce Modernization Act, U.S. growers, and labor contractors will benefit, but most farmworkers will not.
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