books about: laborer     books:       The Time of Man5 reviews Elizabeth Madox Roberts Univ Pr of Kentucky, 1982 the little known classic The little known classic by Elizabeth Madox Roberts, The Time of Man, is a novel that deserves to be read, not just by scholars in the field of twentieth century literature, but by all who love a well crafted, universally moving tale of what it means to be alive in any time. The novel tells the story of a young woman, Ellen Chesser, as she struggles to survive with her family in the knobs ...             Malinche?s Children9 reviews Daniel Houston-Davila University Press of Mississippi, 2003 Expect a Lot Yes, this book is a warmly written and detailed chronicle of Mexican Americans in southern California. But it is more: a richly imagined and compassionate exploration of human aspiration. Houston-Davila's characters want what all of us want: love, home, a sense of meaning. Seeking these things in a transplanted, impoverished environment, the odds would seem stacked against them. But they ...             Children of the Dust Bowl: The True Story of the School at Weedpatch Camp9 reviews Jerry Stanley Crown Books for Young Readers, 1993 Connecting Childen to History this book is an excellent companion to the historical ficiton book "Bud, Not Buddy." By reading aloud sections of Children of the Dustbowl, teachers could build some of the background knowledge that would help children understand how the daily lives of the average person changed as a result of the Great Depression and the 5-year drought in the Midwest. Given the devastation of Hurriicane ...             Luck: A Novel8 reviews Eric B. Martin, Eric Martin W. W. Norton & Company, 2000 Intelligent and Thrilling Any book that takes on a serious social issue (migrant labor, in this case) risks moralizing but Martin's mind is too sharp to fall into that trap. While recognizing the human tendency to draw lines between dark and light (many of his characters try and fail to do just that), the author never lets his readers off so easily. Which is not to say he wearies us with wishy-washy waffling ...             John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath and Other Writings 1936-1941: The Grapes of Wrath, The Harvest Gypsies, ...5 reviews John Steinbeck Library of America, 1996 Steinbeck's Art It is surely a shame that Mr. Steinbeck forever will be confined to the archipelago of socio-economico-political literature. Too often a smug reviewer writes of Steinbeck's "moving" portrayal of the Joad family and their struggle against a growing America. "Oh, how I can 'identify' with the Preacher!" HUMBUG. Mr. Steinbeck wrote words, not ideas. His art is exquisite and melodious and ...             American Exodus: The Dust Bowl Migration and Okie Culture in California4 reviews James N. Gregory Oxford University Press, USA, 1989 A great companion to Grapes of Wrath James Gregory has put together a outstanding history of the migration and culture of the dust bowl migrants who settled in California. I have probably read Grapes of Wrath four or five times since first reading it in high school, but after reading Gregory's description of the way these poor south-westerners struggled with poverty and at the same time maintained family unity and cultural pride, ...             The Coolie Trade: The Traffic in Chinese Laborers to Latin America4 reviews Arnold J. Meagher PhD Xlibris Corporation, 2008 Amazing Book More Relevant Today Then Ever One need only pick-up a recent issue of The Economist to understand how strikingly relevant this book, adopted from a thesis written by Dr. Arnold J. Meagher in the mid-1970s, remains today. In the article, Drawing Lines in a Dark Place (August 16th, 2008), The Economist paints a picture of the still lingering trade in people-trafficking and illegal immigration, including the evils of bonded ...             Huelga House6 reviews Bonnie Hearn Salvo Press, 2001 Central California in Conflict: A Fight for Survival Hearn has captured the turmoil that affected California farmworkers and owners in 1965. This was a tumultuous time, a time when traditional farmworking practices were challenged, a time that changed farm labor relationships forever. Hearn's characters take on a life of their own as she leads the reader on a suspenseful journey to solve the murder of the protagonist's sister, a farm labor ...             Gathering the Sun / Recogiendo El Sol Un Abecedar: An Alphabet in Spanish and English9 reviews Alma Flor Ada Topeka Bindery, 2003 Celebrate Latin Heritage and Honor the Work of Farm Workers Right away, one can see that this is much more than your run-of-the-mill alphabet books. Two extremely talented people, author Alma Flor Ada and Simon Silva, collaborate on 28 short poems that celebrate the pride of the Latino familes that work the fields as migrant farmworkers. In fact, this book is dedicated to the memory of Cesar Chavez. Alma Flor Ada has written extensively on what it is ...             John Clare: A Biography4 reviews Jonathan Bate Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003 Fabulous Portrait Endearing, moving and mysterious, this is as sensitive a portrait of John Clare as we are likely to get. Bate's love for his subject is obvious throughout the book, in which he succeeds so well at walking the line between adoration and accuracy. Teeming with observations such as "for Clare even a fishpond is saturated with feeling and memory," Clare's unusually intense absorption in nature is ...             An American Exodus: A Record of Human Erosion2 reviews Editions Jean-Michel Place, 1999 Heart-wrenching vignettes of depression-era refugees These heart-breaking black & whites were shot while Lange and her husband Paul Taylor were under contract with the Federal WPA and chronicle the exodus of dustbowl refugees of the Great Depression and the anguish of their daily struggles for survival in the 'promised land' of California. Some of these photographs are difficult to view, giving an infinite depth-of-field perspective of the arid, ...             Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America2 reviews Dana Frank South End Press, 2005 Electrical BANANERAS At first I found myself a little bored reading BANANERAS, Dana Frank's total reimagination of the labor union as the engine of women's liberation in first Honduras then elsewhere south of the border, but then the sweep of her narrative began to carry me away. Not liking bananas myself, I had somehow merely lived my whole life without ever inquiring about the women who picked and packed them. ...             Terra: Struggle of the Landless3 reviews Chico Buarque Phaidon Press, 1997 Will blow you away, you will not know yourself... I took a look at this book in a book store, here in Berkeley Ca. The people you meet as you flip thru the photos make you want to re-examine your own life. Most of the people in these photographs have extremely difficult lives, due to a twist of fate rather than a personal choice. Salgado has not photographed them for pity or to gain sympathy from you, as much as he has shown you a side of ...             With These Hands: The Hidden World of Migrant Farmworkers Today4 reviews Daniel Rothenberg Harcourt, 1998 Everyone who eats should read this book. "The Poorest of the Invisible Working Poor" could be an alternate title for Daniel Rothenberg's "With These Hands." Most of us know migrant farm workers only when one of them breaks the law and get written up in the newspaper. However, just about every piece of produce we routinely select at the supermarket has passed through their hands. I particularly liked the format of Rothenberg's book, ...             Cultivating California: Growers, Specialty Crops, and Labor, 1875-1920 (Revisiting Rural America)2 reviews David Vaught The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999 From the publisher's website "This is an important book because it dares to take on -- with considerable success -- a paradigm that has prevailed since the publication of Carey McWilliams's Factories in the Field in 1939. Cultivating California is a crisply written, fast-paced narrative based upon extraordinary research. It is also a courageous effort to clarify the history of agriculture in California by making room for ...             The Grapes of Wrath: Trouble in the Promised Land (Twayne's Masterwork Studies)3 reviews Louis Owens Twayne Publishers, 1989 This book is one of Twayne's best Owens was a fine Steinbeck scholar, and this text is one of Twayne's best sellers due to his careful examination of the text and generous interpretive skills. For fans of Steinbeck who require scholarly discussion for their research, Owens is excellent.             When Living Was a Labor Camp (Camino Del Sol)3 reviews Diana García University of Arizona Press, 2000 Wow. This debut book of poems is a wonder, and was written by someone whose wise voice should have been heard a long time before now. Diana Garcia is the daughter of Mexican migrant workers in California's San Joaquin Valley, the granddaughter of a curandera, the mother of a son who migrates on hiw own to Kansas, and the wife of a man who toasts her with kind glances. And there are other close ...             Voices from the Fields : Children of Migrant Farmworkers Tell Their Stories4 reviews S. Beth Atkin Little, Brown Young Readers, 2000 Picking into migrant families lives I have recommended this book to teachers, counselors, therapists, social workers, politicians and law enforcement officials. It takes you inside migrant families lives and lets you share with them their success, sacrifice, and nostalgia. Beth Atkins captures more than images in her photographs. She captures pride, hard work, and nostalgic happy lives away from home (Mexico). Originario ...             Philip Vera Cruz: A Personal History of Filipino Immigrants and the Farmworkers Movement3 reviews Craig Scharlin, Lilia V. Villanueva University of Washington Press, 2000 Great Quick Read on Fil-Am Contributions and Inter-Racial Relations I picked up this book because I am a Filipino-American and knew little of the contributions of Filipino-Americans to American society and even had non-Filipino friends tell me of this man and the contributions to the UFW and labor laws in America. It's a sincere story of an honest man who bridged people and cultures and stood up for what was right and worth fighting for. I read it over one ...             Bringing in the Sheaves2 reviews Richard Higgs Council Oak Books, 1996 Great Road Book! There is so much to like about this book-the engaging voice of the author, the tidbits of history woven into the narrative, the unusual (quirky) characters Mr. Higgs worked with and met on his journey (not to mention his bizarre wife). Richard Higgs is a unique and fascinating storyteller--curious, introspective, intelligent, poetic--not to mention his high sense of irony. This book is a pleasure ...              search for books 1875-1920, 1936-1941, abecedar, alphabet, american, bananeras, biography, bringing, california, children, cultivating, farmworkers, filipino, gathering, immigrants, laborers, landless, malinche, masterwork, migration, movement, personal, promised, recogiendo, revisiting, specialty, steinbeck, struggle, transforming, weedpatch books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. 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