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1	Grapes of wrath more books like this by John Steinbeck John Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, "The Grapes of Wrath", was published in 1939. Set during the Great Depression, the novel follows failed farmer Tom Joad and his family as they head from Oklahoma's Dust Bowl to the promised land of the West. "Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations" presents the reader with a collection of important ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Hard Row more books like this by Margaret Maron For Judge Deborah Knott, it becomes clear that deep resentments over race, class, and illegal immigration are brewing in the countryside. When mutilated bodies are found, Deborah's search for the killer leads her to a desperate realm of undocumented farm workers exploited for cheap labor. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child more books like this by Francisco Jimenez After dark in a Mexican border town, a father holds open a hole in a wire fence as his wife and two small boys crawl through. So begins life in the United States for many people every day. And so begins this collection of twelve autobiographical stories by Santa Clara University professor Francisco Jim???nez, who at the age of four illegally ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.29! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market more books like this by Eric Schlosser Marijuana, pornography, and immigrant migration: in common, they share the dubious distinction of having three of the largest black markets in history. And their prosperity is only growing. Noted essayist Schlosser, author of FAST FOOD NATION, examines these three market sectors and dissects what it is about these enterprises that makes them ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Cajas de Carton: Relatos de la Vida Peregrina de un Nino Campesino more books like this by Francisco Jimenez Without sentiment or melodrama, this wonderful book perfectly portrays an immigrant child's view of leaving Mexico for California in the 1940s to pursue a better life. see all copies from $2.14! new only from $2.46! \| SVS
6	The Harvest Gypsies: On the Road to the Grapes of Wrath more books like this by John Steinbeck, Charles Wollenberg (Introduction by) With the inquisitiveness of an investigative reporter and the emotional power of a novelist in his prime, Steinbeck toured the squatters' camps and Hoovervilles of California. Here he found once strong, independent farmers so reduced in dignity, sick, sullen, and defeated that they had been "cast down to a kind of subhumanity." He contrasts their ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.95! \| first editions
7	Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath and Other Writings: 1936-1941 more books like this by John Steinbeck, Robert Demott (Editor), Elaine A Steinbeck (Editor) The library of America is dedicated to publishing America's best and most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as the "finest-looking, longest-lasting editions ever made" (The New Republic), Library of America volumes make a fine gift for any occasion. Now, with exactly one hundred volumes to ... see all copies from $20.00! new only from $21.00! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Circuit more books like this by Francisco Jimenez This autobiographical novel explores the life of a family of migrant workers living in California. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.35! \| signed copies \| SVS
9	Under the Feet of Jesus more books like this by Helene M Viramontes Helena Maria Viramontes' highly acclaimed first novel is a moving and powerful vision of the lives of the men, women, and children who endure a second-class existence and labor under dangerous conditions in America's fields. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.67! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	America is in the Heart: A Personal History more books like this by Carlos Bulosan, Carey McWilliams (Introduction by) First published in 1946, this autobiography of the well-known Filipino poet describes his boyhood in the Philippines, his voyage to America, and his years of hardship and despair as an itinerant labourer following the harvest trail in the rural West. see all copies from $2.96! new only from $9.67! \| SVS
11 view cover	Barefoot Heart: Stories of a Migrant Child more books like this by Elva Treviino Hart In this memoir, Hart recalls the poverty of her childhood from the perspective of her prosperous adulthood. The daughter of Mexican migrant workers, Hart relates how she rose from the poverty of her family, focusing in particular on her childhood and high school experiences. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers Movement more books like this by Susan Ferriss, Ricardo Sandoval Accompanying a PBS documentary of the same name, "The Fight in the Fields" tells the dramatic story of Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers Union, both in words and in powerful photographs, many previously unpublished. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.58! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13	Under the Feet of Jesus: 2a Novel more books like this by Helene M Viramontes Hailed as a Grapes of Wrath for our times, Under the Feet of Jesus is a moving and powerful vision of the lives of the men, women, and children who endure a second-class existence and labor under dangerous conditions in America's fields. see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions
14 view cover	With These Hands: The Hidden World of Migrant Farmworkers Today more books like this by Daniel Rothenberg An oral history based on over 250 interviews with doctors, organizers, contractors, growers, inspectors, and members of farmworkers' families. The author shows the wide range of experiences as well as the interconnectedness between the world of the American farmworker and the lives of everyday Americans. see all copies from $4.53! new only from $21.29! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Factories in the Field: The Story of Migratory Farm Labor in California more books like this by Carey McWilliams This book was the first broad expose of the social and environmental damage inflicted by the growth of corporate agriculture in California. "Factories in the Field"--together with the work of Dorothea Lange, Paul Taylor, and John Steinbeck--dramatizes the misery of the dust bowl migrants hoping to find work in California agriculture. McWilliams ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $29.93! \| signed copies \| first editions
16 view cover	Blues Lessons more books like this by Robert Hellenga Growing up on his family's orchards in Appleton, Michigan, in the 1950s, Martin Dijksterhuis finds everything he needs in his extended family and in the land itself -- in the reassuring routines of growing and harvesting, spraying and pruning. Although his mother wants him to get out of Appleton, which she finds impossibly provincial, and attend a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	The Farmworkers' Journey more books like this by Ann Aurelia Lopez Illuminating the dark side of economic globalization, this book gives a rare insider's view of the migrant farmworkers' binational circuit that stretches from the west central Mexico countryside to central California. Over the course of ten years, Ann Aurelia Lopez conducted a series of intimate interviews with farmworkers and their families along ... see all copies from $9.27! new only from $21.95! \| first editions \| SVS
18	The Grapes of Wrath: 250th Anniversary Edition more books like this by John Steinbeck, Studs Terkel John Steinbeck lived and worked with a group of migrant workers in California, from whom he drew the material for his great Dust Bowl saga of a wandering Okie family, the Joads. This Pulitzer Prize-winning novel awakened the American reading public to the plight of migrant workers and made Steinbeck famous worldwide. One of the most popular novels ... see all copies from $11.72! first editions
19 view cover	Cajas de Carton more books like this by Francisco Jimenez This autobiographical novel explores the life of a family of migrant workers living in California. see all copies from $4.92! new only from $15.75! \| SVS
20 view cover	Cesar!: Si, Se Puede! Yes, We Can! more books like this by Carmen T Bernier-Grand Stylized illustrations by a Caldecott Medalist accompany lyrical prose and poems in this celebration of the life of Cesar Chavez. This thoughtful and beautiful biography illuminates not only the events that made up the great labor leader's life, but also the ideals and inspiration that are his legacy. "An excellent choice."--"School Library ... see all copies from $2.44! new only from $9.49! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Deadly Harvest more books like this by Brad Reynolds, Father, S.J. A Catholic priest discovers that several Latino farmworkers have disappeared from a sealed building after devoting themselves to an evangelical preacher with an apocalyptic view. When the preacher is murdered, the priest starts to investigate. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.95! \| first editions
22 view cover	Las Hijas de Juan: Daughters Betrayed more books like this by Josie Mendez-Negrete "Las Hijas De Juan" shatters the silence, bearing witness to experiences of incest within a working-class Mexican American family. Both a feminist memoir and a hopeful meditation on healing, it is Josie Mendez-Negrete's story of how she and her siblings and mother survived years of violence and sexual abuse at the hands of her father. Mendez ... see all copies from $11.95! new only from $18.50! \| SVS
23 view cover	Al Norte: Agricultural Workers in the Great Lakes Region, 1917-1970 more books like this by Dennis Nodin Valdes see all copies from $1.99! new only from $90.52! \| first editions
24 view cover	The Farm Labor Movement in the Midwest: Social Change and Adaptation Among Migrant Farmworkers more books like this by W K Barger, Ernesto M Reza, Baldemar Velasquez (Foreword by) The Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC) was founded by Baldemar Velasquez in 1967 to challenge the poverty and powerlessness that confronted migrant farmworkers in the Midwest. This study documents FLOC's development through its first quarter century and analyzes its effectiveness as a social reform movement. Barger and Reza describe FLOC's ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.95! \| first editions
25	Big Sugar: Seasons in the Canefields of Florida more books like this by Alec Wilkinson A compelling inside portrait of the migrant workers--most imported seasonallyfrom Jamaica--who cut cane for the large American sugar companies in SouthernFlorida. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.99! \| first editions \| SVS

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