Download or read book The Strawberry Pickers written by Roy Baham and published by . This book was released on 2000-04-01 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Strawberry Pickers written by Billie Griffin Lampp and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Strawberry Picker written by Monika Feth and published by Random House. This book was released on 2007 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jenna is sharing a flat with her friends Caro and Merle when a girl is killed nearby. The murder seems to have parallels with two other frightening crimes. Then one day, Caro is found murdered, just like the other girls. When Merle sets about solving Caro's murder herself, another horrifying reality emerges.
Download or read book Fresh Fruit Broken Bodies written by Seth M. Holmes and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2013-06-19 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intimate examination of the everyday lives and suffering of Mexican migrants and indigenous people in our contemporary food system. An anthropologist and MD in the mold of Paul Farmer and Didier Fassin, Seth Holmes shows how market forces, anti-immigrant sentiment, and racism undermine health and healthcare. Holmes’s material is visceral and powerful. He trekked with his companions illegally through the desert into Arizona and was jailed with them before they were deported. He lived with indigenous families in the mountains of Oaxaca and in farm labor camps in the U.S., planted and harvested corn, picked strawberries, and accompanied sick workers to clinics and hospitals. This “embodied anthropology” deepens our theoretical understanding of how health equity is undermined by a normalization of migrant suffering, the natural endpoint of systemic dehumanization, exploitation, and oppression that clouds any sense of empathy for “invisible workers.” Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies is far more than an ethnography or supplementary labor studies text; Holmes tells the stories of food production workers from as close to the ground as possible, revealing often theoretically-discussed social inequalities as irreparable bodily damage done. This book substantiates the suffering of those facing the danger of crossing the border, threatened with deportation, or otherwise caught up in the structural violence of a system promising work but endangering or ignoring the human rights and health of its workers. All of the book award money and royalties from the sales of this book have been donated to farm worker unions, farm worker organizations and farm worker projects in consultation with farm workers who appear in the book.
Download or read book Strawberry Fields written by Miriam J. Wells and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about social conflict and economic restructuring, and the play of political forces in the relationship between the two. The purpose of the book is to engage and develop social theory through the causal analysis of a particular case, but to increase under-standing of a fascinating and little-known world.
Download or read book Snow Falling on Cedars written by David Guterson and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1994 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful tale of the Pacific Northwest in the 1950s, reminiscent of To Kill a Mockingbird. Courtroom drama, love story, and war novel, this is the epic tale of a young Japanese-American and the man on trial for killing the man she loves.
Download or read book Life on a Family Fruit Farm the Early Years written by Philip S. Salisbury and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-06-27 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was born out of an effort to recall significant characteristic, incidents, and occasions that were memorable in my young life. What has emerged is a compilation of vignettes on the diversity of the lives of one boy and his family as they work their way through the vicissitudes of life. It is seen through the new eyes of a growing boy. What emerges is a life with ups, downs, and even times. Life on a fruit farm provides a relatively constant demand for growth and responsibility. Children are exposed to hard work, many choices, and a variety of experiences at an early time in life.
Download or read book Farmer On the Strawberry written by Lawrence Jones Farmer and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Farm Labor written by and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reefer Madness written by Eric Schlosser and published by HMH. This book was released on 2004-04-01 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller: The shadowy world of “off the books” businesses—from marijuana to migrant workers—brought to life by the author of Fast Food Nation. America’s black market is much larger than we realize, and it affects us all deeply, whether or not we smoke pot, rent a risqué video, or pay our kids’ nannies in cash. In Reefer Madness, the award-winning investigative journalist Eric Schlosser turns his exacting eye to the underbelly of American capitalism and its far-reaching influence on our society. Exposing three American mainstays—pot, porn, and illegal immigrants—Schlosser shows how the black market has burgeoned over the past several decades. He also draws compelling parallels between underground and overground: how tycoons and gangsters rise and fall, how new technology shapes a market, how government intervention can reinvigorate black markets as well as mainstream ones, and how big business learns—and profits—from the underground. “Captivating . . . Compelling tales of crime and punishment as well as an illuminating glimpse at the inner workings of the underground economy. The book revolves around two figures: Mark Young of Indiana, who was sentenced to life in prison without parole for his relatively minor role in a marijuana deal; and Reuben Sturman, an enigmatic Ohio man who built and controlled a formidable pornography distribution empire before finally being convicted of tax evasion. . . . Schlosser unravels an American society that has ‘become alienated and at odds with itself.’ Like Fast Food Nation, this is an eye-opening book, offering the same high level of reporting and research.” —Publishers Weekly
Download or read book No One Eats Alone written by Michael S. Carolan and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2017-05-09 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today's fast-paced, fast food world, everyone seems to be eating alone, all the time--whether it's at their desks or in the car. Michael Carolan argues that needs to change if we want healthy, equitable, and sustainable food. We can no longer afford to ignore human connections as we struggle with dire problems like hunger, obesity, toxic pesticides, antibiotic resistance, depressed rural economies, and low-wage labor. In No One Eats Alone he tells the stories of people getting together to change their relationship to food and to each other--from community farms where suburban moms and immigrant families work side by side, to online exchanges where entrepreneurs share kitchen space, to "hackers" who trade information about farm machinery repairs. This is how real change happens, Carolan contends: when we start acting like citizens first and consumers second.
Download or read book Strawberries Peas and Beans written by Willard R. Mumford and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strawberries, Peas & Beans is the story of farmers, pickers, produce & unique brass tokens used by the farmers to pay their pickers. With over 2,000 truck farms, Anne Arundel County was one of the leading truck farming regions in the United States. Anne Arundel gave birth to commercial strawberries & led the nation in strawberry acreage for many years. Peach orchards in Maryland were first grown in Anne Arundel County. Melons developed in the County delighted consumers with a reputation as the finest in the world. Anne Arundel produce with its reputation for quality was shipped as far North as Montreal & as far West as Denver. Strawberries, Peas & Beans documents the truck farming era in Anne Arundel County, an era ignored in Maryland history books & unknown to most people. The book tells of the hard life of the farmers & how they depended upon the immigrant pickers from Baltimore. Over 10,000 pickers migrated to the Anne Arundel farms during the summer months to pick strawberries, peas & beans. The book describes an agricultural society & elaborates on the reputation of Anne Arundel produce. The book also includes the most complete inventory of pickers' checks ever compiled, listing over 400 farmers & 1500 different varieties of tokens.
Download or read book Strawberry Fields written by Marina Lewycka and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A farmer's indiscretions force a band of illegal migrant workers from different backgrounds to flee their strawberry fields and embark on a haphazard journey across England in search of better lives, an effort marked by an unlikely love affair.
Download or read book Two Caravans written by Marina Lewycka and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2008-03-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two Caravans is the hilarious and engaging second novel from bestselling author Marina Lewycka. A field of strawberries in Kent... And sitting in it are two caravans - one for the men and one for the women. The residents are from all over: miner's son Andriy is from the old Ukraine, while sexy young Irina is from the new: they each other warily. There are the Poles, Tomasz and Yola; two Chinese girls; and Emauel from Malawi. They're all here to pick strawberries in England's green and pleasant land. But these days England's not so pleasant for immigrants. Not with Russian gangster-wannabes like Vulk, who's taken a shine to Irina and thinks kidnapping is a wooing strategy. And so Andriy - who really doesn't fancy Irina, honest - must set off in search of that girl he's not in love with. 'Immensely appealing. All but sings with zest for life...could hardly be more engaging, shrewd and winningly perceptive' Sunday Times 'Extremely funny, closely observed insights, scenes of farce, tragedy and horror' The Times Literary Supplement 'Hilarious and horrifying, Two Caravans is funny, clever and well observed' Guardian Bestselling author Marina Lewkyca has received great critical acclaim since the publication of her hilarious first novel A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian in 2005, which was the winner of the Bollinger Everyman Prize for Comic Fiction 2005, winner of the Saga Award for Wit 2005, shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2005 and longlisted for the Booker prize 2005. Her other humorous novels We Are All Made of Glue and Various Pets Alive and Dead are also available from Penguin. Two Caravans is published as Strawberry Fields in the USA and Canada.
Download or read book Every Farm Tells a Story written by Jerry Apps and published by Wisconsin Historical Society. This book was released on 2018-02-23 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jerry Apps details the virtues and hardships of rural living. “Do your chores without complaining. Show up on time. Do every job well. Always try to do better. Never stop learning. Next year will be better. Care for others, especially those who have less than you. Accept those who are different from you. Love the land.” In this paperback edition of a beloved Jerry Apps classic, the rural historian captures the heart and soul of life in rural America. Inspired by his mother’s farm account books—in which she meticulously recorded every farm purchase—Jerry chronicles life on a small farm during and after World War II. Featuring a new introduction exclusive to this 2nd edition, Every Farm Tells a Story reminds us that, while our family farms are shrinking in number, the values learned there remain deeply woven in our cultural heritage.
Download or read book The Strawberry Promise written by Patricia Clark Smith and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-29 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Strawberry Promise is a delightful story about little Isabellas family tradition of picking strawberries each June and making strawberry jam. At four years old, Isabella could not wait for her mother, grandmother, and two aunts to meet at the Pickn Patch, pick quarts of strawberries, and bring them home to make strawberry jam together. Hearing about the threat of rain, Isabella worries that the strawberry picking and jamming will be cancelled. Children and adults will enjoy reading about the making of jam using freshly picked strawberries, putting the jam into sterilized jars to preserve for the winter, and the tradition Isabella inherited from her mother, grandmother, aunts, great grandmother, and great-great-grandmother started over a century ago on the Twomey family farm in Calverton, Long Island, New York.
Download or read book Farm Labor written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
