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Dignity or Exploitation: What Future for Farmworkers in the United States?

UCLA Latin American Institute
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In this presentation, based on a new report by the Oakland Institute, journalist and photographer David Bacon documents the systematic abuse of workers in the H-2A program and its impact on the resident farmworker communities, confronted with a race to the bottom in wages and working conditions. Speaker: David Bacon, Independent Journalist and author of In the Fields of the North (UC Press, 2017) and The Right to Stay Home: How US Policy Drives Mexican Migration (Beacon Press, 2013) among many other books and articles. David is also a renown photographer and blogger ( The Reality Check - http://davidbaconrealitycheck.blogspo...) He will present on COVID's impact on farmworkers, and their response to it. David Trouille, a sociologist at James Madison University who researches the experiences of H-2A workers in Virginia, will offer comments following the presentation. Sponsor(s): Latin American Institute, Center for Mexican Studies ...more
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Dignity or Exploitation: What Future for Farmworkers in the United States?
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2021Apr 6
In this presentation, based on a new report by the Oakland Institute, journalist and photographer David Bacon documents the systematic abuse of workers in the H-2A program and its impact on the resident farmworker communities, confronted with a race to the bottom in wages and working conditions. Speaker: David Bacon, Independent Journalist and author of In the Fields of the North (UC Press, 2017) and The Right to Stay Home: How US Policy Drives Mexican Migration (Beacon Press, 2013) among many other books and articles. David is also a renown photographer and blogger ( The Reality Check - http://davidbaconrealitycheck.blogspo...) He will present on COVID's impact on farmworkers, and their response to it. David Trouille, a sociologist at James Madison University who researches the experiences of H-2A workers in Virginia, will offer comments following the presentation. Sponsor(s): Latin American Institute, Center for Mexican Studies

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UCLA Latin American Institute

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