Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Of rural proletarian struggles	K. P. Kannan	With reference to Kerala.	OL1025799W
Labour bondage in West India	Jan Breman	On bonded labor in two villages in West Gujarat; a study.	OL1084078W
Land, protest, and politics	Gabriel A. Ondetti	"Analyzes the development of the movement for agrarian reform in Brazil, and attempts to explain the major moments of change in its growth trajectory, from the late 1970s to 2006"--Provided by publis…	OL11998749W
Cesar Chavez	Susan Zannos	A biography of the Mexican American who spent most of his life working to organize the migrant farm workers in California and was instrumental in the founding of the United Farm Workers union.	OL14866054W
Leopardens öga	Henning Mankell	Arriving in newly independent Zambia in the hopes of fulfilling a friend's missionary dream, Hans Olofson endeavors to make Africa his home while struggling with such past demons as his father's alco…	OL14970115W
A migrant family	Larry Dane Brimner	Portrays the life of twelve-year-old Juan Medina and his family, migrant workers living in Encinitas, California.	OL15037578W
Mountain That Walked	Katherine Holubitsky	A natural disaster leads to unexpected opportunity.	OL15178269W
Food, energy and the creation of industriousness	Craig Muldrew	"Until the widespread harnessing of machine energy, food was the energy which fuelled the economy. In this groundbreaking study of agricultural labourers' diet and material standard of living Craig M…	OL15538213W
Voices from the fields	S. Beth Atkin	Photographs, poems, and interviews with children reveal the hardships and hopes of Mexican American migrant farm workers and their families.	OL16065842W
Let's read about-- César Chávez	Jerry Tello	A profile of César Chávez, the Mexican American union leader who fought to get migrant farm workers better wages.	OL1632503W
The American way of eating	Tracie McMillan	"In 2009 McMillan embarked on a groundbreaking undercover journey to see what it takes to eat well in America. For nearly a year, she worked, ate, and lived alongside the working poor to examine how…	OL16586693W
Victory Farm Volunteers of the U.S. Crop Corps Need 50,0000 Boys And Girls	United States. Extension Service.	AWI 52	OL17323363W
As ocupações de terra e a produção do direito	Carlos Alberto dos Santos Dutra	O surgimento do Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST), responsável, nos dias atuais, por centenas de conflitos na busca pela posse da terra, tem semeado, na esfera do Direito, situações …	OL1757563W
Senderos fronterizos	Francisco Jimenez	Having come from Mexico to California ten years ago, fourteen-year-old Francisco is still working in the fields but fighting to improve his life and complete his education.	OL18982029W
Chasing the harvest	Gabriel Thompson	"'The Grapes of Wrath' brought national attention to the condition of California's migrant farmworkers in the 1930s. Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers' grape and lettuce boycotts captured the …	OL20054751W
Wandering workers	Willard Allison Heaps	Examines, chiefly through interviews with migrant workers, their problems of employment, housing, and child welfare and education.	OL22465655W
The Grapes of Wrath	John Steinbeck	Steinbeck’s classic novel of the Great Depression is as vivid now as ever. The story focuses on a family of Oklahoma sharecroppers, farmers who work another man’s land for a share of the crops. Drive…	OL23205W
Gathering the sun	Alma Flor Ada	A book of poems about working in the fields and nature's bounty, one for each letter of the Spanish alphabet.	OL2586266W
Lanterns for fiesta	Suzanne G. Fulle	The twelve-year-old daughter of an agricultural laborer sees hope for a better life if she can only figure a way to attend the special school opened in the barrio.	OL7139871W
The hired lad	Ian Campbell Thomson	The author relives his time as a young farmworker on a Stirlingshire farm after the Second World War. Told with humour, the story tells of escapades and problems as he strives for a foothold on the …	OL9027386W