Rows of Memory : Journeys of a Migrant Sugar-Beet Worker /

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"Every year from April to October, the Sánchez family traveled--crowded in the back of trucks, camping in converted barns, tending and harvesting crops across the breadth of the United States. Although hoeing sugar beets with a short hoe was their specialty, they also picked oranges in Califor...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Sánchez, Saúl, 1943- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2014]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Sánchez, Saúl, > 1943-
Migrant labor.
Mexican Americans.
Labor market.
Emigration and immigration law.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
employing.
Americains d'origine mexicaine > Biographies.
Familles americaines d'origine mexicaine > Conditions sociales.
Marche du travail.
Travailleurs migrants > États-Unis > Biographies.
Mexican Americans > Biography.
Mexican American families > Social conditions.
Migrant labor > United States > Biography.
United States.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • The Spinach Capital of the World
  • Following the Migrant Trail North to Iowa and Minnesota
  • Leaving for California
  • The Migrant Experience from Birth to Age Five
  • A Crystal City Education
  • Joining the Workforce in Wisconsin
  • Compromises in Delano, Wind Lake, and Burlington
  • From La Grammar to Elk Grove Consolidated
  • Youthful Rebellion in Billings, Montana
  • Competition in Moses Lake, Washington
  • Crystal City High
  • New Beginnings in Iowa
  • Graduating from Crystal City
  • Hauling Tomatoes to the Heinz Plant
  • Experiments in the Iowa Fields
  • School and Work from Texas to East L.A.
  • Working the Rows between Classes
  • Using the Long Hoe in North Dakota
  • Adjusting to Academic Life in San Marcos
  • Leaving the Migrant Trail.

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