I Am Not a Tractor! : : How Florida Farmworkers Took On the Fast Food Giants and Won / / Susan L. Marquis.

I Am Not a Tractor! celebrates the courage, vision, and creativity of the farmworkers and community leaders who have transformed one of the worst agricultural situations in the United States into one of the best. Susan L. Marquis highlights past abuses workers suffered in Florida’s tomato fields: to...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2017]
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Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (296 p.) :; 22 b&w halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Characters
  • Acronyms and Organizations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Prologue. Getting to Immokalee
  • 1. To beat one of us is to beat us all!
  • 2. “Bang your head against the wall long enough . . .”
  • 3. Campaigning for fair food
  • 4. Has anyone talked with these guys?
  • 5. Eyes wide open
  • 6. Forging the path by walking it
  • 7. “Value” can have a different meaning
  • 8. What difference?
  • 9. Designed for the future
  • A note on sources
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index