Farm Workers Cutting Anise in the Winter

by David Bacon (reposted)

Tue, Dec 23, 2008 4:16PM

GREENFIELD, CA - 18 DECEMBER 08 - A crew of indigenous farm workers from Mexico cuts and packs boxes of anise in a field in the Salinas Valley. It is so cold that snow is on the peaks of the mountains on each side of the valley.

For more articles and images on farm workers and immigration, see http://dbacon.igc.org/Imgrants/imgrants.htm

Just out from Beacon Press:
Illegal People -- How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants
http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?PC=2002

See also the photodocumentary on indigenous migration to the US
Communities Without Borders (Cornell University/ILR Press, 2006)
http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cup_detail.taf?ti_id=4575

See also The Children of NAFTA, Labor Wars on the U.S./Mexico Border (University of California, 2004)
http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/9989.html

http://dbacon.igc.org

by David Bacon (reposted)

Tue, Dec 23, 2008 4:16PM