...Don Mitchell From the Jaws of Victory: The Triumph and Tragedy of Cesar Chavez and the Farm Worker Movement . By Matt Garcia . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2012 . 368 pp., $34.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-520-25930-0 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015...

...Shana Bernstein Abstract In 1998 the United Farm Workers and Swanton Berry Farm signed the first contract between a union and an organic farm. Exploring this contract’s origins uncovers a previously hidden history of the 1990s as a time of possibility for coalitions among labor activists...

...David Goldfield Hiring the Black Worker: The Racial Integration of the Southern Textile Industry, 1960-1980 . Timothy J. Minchin . Copyright 2000 Agricultural History Society 2000 830 / Agricultural History pearance in Loma Bonita of such conveniences as roads, running water...

...Randal Beeman Agricultural History Winter The Union of Their Dreams: Power, Hope, and Struggle in Cesar Chavez s Farm Worker Movement. By Miriam Pawel. New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2009. 336 pp., $28.00, hardback, ISBN 978-59691-460-5. Although almost five decades have passed since the Great Delano...

... Worker and His Environment, 4500 BC AD 1950. By Avice R. Wilson. Salisbury: Hobnob Press, 2007. 316 pp., £14.95, paperback, ISBN 978-0-946418-32-9. Avice Wilson is well known to Wiltshire local historians as the author of a detailed study of Cocklebury as well as a history of cheese-making in the 122...

...Sean Parulian Harvey Power and Control in the Imperial Valley: Nature, Agribusiness, and Workers on the California Borderland, 1900–1940 . By Benny J. Andrés Jr. College Station : Texas A&M University , 2015 . 288 pp., $43.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-62349-197-0. © 2016...

...Barry Whittemore Smokestacks in the Hills: Rural-Industrial Workers in West Virginia . By Lou Martin . Urbana : University of Illinois Press , 2015 . 264 pp., $28.00 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-252-08102-6 . © 2016 Agricultural History Society 2016 Agricultural History Fall...

...Matt K. Matsuda [email protected] Coconut Colonialism: Workers and the Globalization of Samoa . By Holger Droessler . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2022 . 304 pp., $39.95 , hardback, ISBN 9780674263338. Copyright © 2023 the Agricultural History Society...

...Nick Johnson Abstract During the first half of the twentieth century in the American West, Mexican and Mexican American farm workers grew and used Cannabis , the marijuana plant, to help navigate the physical, mental, and economic struggles they faced as exploited itinerant laborers. Their stories...

...Steve Striffler Chickenizing Farms and Food: How Industrial Meat Production Endangers Workers, Animals, and Consumers . By Ellen Silbergeld . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press , 2016 . 352 pp., $26.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-4214-2030-1 . © 2018 Agricultural History...

...Sarah Milov Tobacco Capitalism: Growers, Migrant Workers, and the Changing Face of a Global Industry . By Peter Benson . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 2012 . 336 pp., $27.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-691-14920-2 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015...

... of any wrongdoing even though it had executed contracts with the workers stipulating the company would cover their necessities in the winter. Instead, the Mexican families were blamed for ingratitude and exaggerating their conditions. The experiences of these workers in Blackfoot, Idaho were complicated...

...Patricia S. Kruppa Rural Women Workers in 19th Century England: Gender, Work, and Wages . Nicola Verdon . Copyright 2004 Agricultural History Society 2004 Book Reviews Rural Women Workers in 19th Century England: Gender, Work, and Wages. By Nicola Verdon. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell...

... Curious Unions: Mexican American Workers and Resistance in Oxnard, California, 1898 1961. By Frank P. Barajas. Lincoln: university of nebraska Press, 2012. 376 pp., $50.00, hardback, isBn 978-0-8032-3791-9. in Curious Unions, Frank Barajas offers a welcome addition to the body of literature on Mexican...

...Robert C. Overfelt Mexican Workers and the State: From the Porfiriato to NAFTA . Norman Caulfield . Copyright 2000 Agricultural History Society 2000 96 / Agricultural History brose Sevier, from censure when the legislature voted the adoption of a leg? islative committee's report...

...April Merleaux 2011 Book Reviews North for the Harvest: Mexican Workers, Growers, and the Sugar Beet Industry. By Jim Norris. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2009. 216 pp., $22.95, paperback, ISBN 978-0-87351-631-1. North for the Harvest contributes new research that supports...

... bias. Thus, free-market capitalism and white rule continued its influence over the lives of Texas farmers. David Cullen Collin College Claiming Rights and Righting Wrongs in Texas: Mexican Workers and Job Politics during World War II. By Emilio Zamora. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2009...

...Max Grivno Hirelings: African American Workers and Free Labor in Early Maryland . By Jennifer Hull Dorsey . Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 2011 . 244 pp., $45.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8014-4778-5 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2012 2012 2012 Book Reviews...

...Nicole Mottier The Struggle for Maize: Campesinos, Workers, and Transgenic Corn in the Mexican Countryside . By Elizabeth Fitting . Durham : Duke University Press , 2011 . 320 pp., $23.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-8223-4956-3 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2012 2012 Book...

...Michael Magliari Harvest Wobblies: The Industrial Workers of the World and Agricultural Laborers in the American West, 1905–1930 . Greg Hall . Copyright 2002 Agricultural History Society 2002 Book Reviews / 729 Herbert Hovenkamp or Morton Horowitz. Ely does not offer the kind...