Two new reviews of David Bacon’s
latest book have come out recently. Both are available at Bacon’s blog, The Reality
Check:
Review: In the Fields of the North
(En los campos del norte)
By Eve Ottenberg, Labor Notes
August 8, 2017
David Bacon's unforgettable new
English-Spanish photo-essay, In the Fields of the North (En los
campos del norte), is about migrant farm workers on the West Coast. Bacon
says that without unions, the state of affairs in the fruit and vegetable
fields would be even sorrier.[…]
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Chasing the
Harvest' and 'In the Fields of the North'
By Elaine Elinson, SF Gate
July 19, 2017
In 1946, Carlos Bulosan documented
the gritty lives of Filipino migrant workers in California in his
autobiographical novel "America Is in the Heart."
Since that time, there have been a
wealth of books about California farmworkers, from Steinbeck's iconic
"Grapes of Wrath" to Peter Matthiesen's "Sal Si Puedes,"
published at the height of the Delano grape strike, to Matthew Garcia's recent
"From the Jaws of Victory," with revelations from an excavation of
United Farm Workers archives.[…]
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