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Articles, reports, and books about where, why, and how our clients work in agriculture
Agriculture and food industries
Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit, Barry Estabrook (2011)
Foodopoly: The Battle Over The Future of Food and Farming in America, Wenonah Hauter (2012)
The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee’s, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table, Tracie McMillan (2012)
Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States, Seth Holmes, Ph.D., M.D.
(2013)
US policy and immigration
The Right to Stay Home: How US Policy Drives Mexican Migration, David Bacon (2014)
Undocumented: How Immigration Became Illegal, Aviva Chomsky (2014)
“Mexico's corn farmers see their livelihoods wither away: cheap U.S. produce pushes down prices
under free-trade pact,” Monica Campbell and Tyche Hendricks, San Francisco Chronicle, July 31,
2006
“How U.S. policies fueled Mexico's great migration,” David Bacon, The Nation, January 4, 2012
How Georgia’s Anti-Immigration Law Could Hurt the State’s (and the Nation’s) Economy, Tom
Baxter, Center for American Progress (2011)
Sexual harassment and women in agriculture industries
“How to Protect Female Farmworkers,” Jose R. Padilla and David Bacon, New York Times, January
19, 2016
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“Florida Farm Owners Assault Migrants While Police and Prosecutors Do Nothing,” Tim Elfrink, Miami New Times, March 10, 2015
“Female Workers Face Rape, Harassment In U.S. Agriculture Industry,” Bernice Yeung and Grace
Rubenstein, The Center for Investigative Reporting, June 25, 2013. This article was produced in
conjunction with the Frontline documentary Rape in the Fields.
Cultivating Fear: The Vulnerability of Immigrant Farmworkers to Sexual Violence and Sexual Harassment, Human Rights Watch (2012)
Injustice on Our Plates: Immigrant Women in the U.S. Food Industry, Southern Poverty Law Center
(2010)
Meat and poultry processing
Lives on the Line: The high human cost of chicken, Oxfam America (2015)
The Meat Racket: The Secret Takeover of America’s Food Business, Christopher Leonard (2014)
Unsafe at These Speeds: Alabama’s Poultry Industry and its Disposable Workers, Southern Poverty Law Center and Alabama Appleseed (2013)
Guestworkers and Labor Trafficking
“Labor trafficking is everywhere and nowhere: An overview of 21st-century slavery,” Stephanie
Hanes, The Christian Science Monitor, October 26, 2015
“The New American Slavery: Invited to the U.S., Foreign Workers Find a Nightmare,” Jessica Garrison, Ken Bensinger, Jeremy Singer-Vine, Buzzfeed, July 24, 2015
Hidden in Plain Sight, Urban Institute – Northwestern University (2014)
Close to Slavery: Guestworker Programs in the United States, Southern Poverty Law Center (2013)
Films
“East of Salinas,” Laura Pacheco & Jackie Mow, Independent Lens PBS, 2015
“Food Chains,” Sanjay Rawal, Illumine Group, 2014
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