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1968: The Movement
From: The Sixties Papers

A Typology of Mexican Agricultural Workers
From: Mexican and Mexican American Farm Workers

Adaptation to American Society: Family Life, Social Relations, and Education
From: Mexican and Mexican American Farm Workers

Agricultural Workers
From: Immigration in America Today

Chapter 7: BATTLEGROUND IN THE FIELDS
From: CESAR CHAVEZ

Chapter Eight: Catalysts of the Chicano Movement: Farm Worker Organizers and Land Grant Crusaders
From: Testimonio: A Documentary History of the Mexican American Struggle for Civil Rights

Chapter Seven: Defense in the Workplace
From: Testimonio: A Documentary History of the Mexican American Struggle for Civil Rights

FARMWORKERS
From: Latinas in the United States

FIELD HANDS
From: Dictionary of Afro-American Slavery

Chapter 1: IN THE FIELDS
From: CESAR CHAVEZ

Chapter 6: IN THE TUMULT
From: CESAR CHAVEZ

Labor Migration, Family Integration, and the New America
From: Illegal Immigration in America

LABOR, AGRICULTURAL.
From: The Mexican American Experience

Making a Living: Wages, Economic Conditions, and Unemployment
From: Mexican and Mexican American Farm Workers

Chapter 2: NONVIOLENT PROTEST AND VISIONS OF BETTERMENT
From: CESAR CHAVEZ

Perception of Social Class Differences among Mexican-American Agricultural Workers
From: Mexican and Mexican American Farm Workers

Chapter 8: POLITICAL PROWESS
From: CESAR CHAVEZ

Social and Cultural Bases for Undocumented Immigration into the U.S. Poultry Industry
From: Illegal Immigration in America

Social Mobility among Mexican-American Agricultural Workers
From: Mexican and Mexican American Farm Workers

The Contributions of Mexican Laborers to the Development of the Agricultural Industry of the Southwest
From: Mexican and Mexican American Farm Workers

Chapter 5: THE DELANO GRAPE STRIKE
From: CESAR CHAVEZ

The Mexican Agricultural Community in California: Some Preliminary Observations
From: Mexican and Mexican American Farm Workers

Unauthorized Workers in U.S. Agriculture: Old versus New Migrations
From: Illegal Immigration in America

Chapter 9: VIVA LA CAUSA
From: CESAR CHAVEZ

Working Conditions among Mexican Agricultural Workers
From: Mexican and Mexican American Farm Workers

Chapter Three: World War I and Massive Immigration in the 1920s
From: Testimonio: A Documentary History of the Mexican American Struggle for Civil Rights

United Farm Workers
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Mexican workers bailing hay in the San Gabriel Valley in the 1890s.

Field hands of the Bracero Program.

Migrant farmworkers often work with minor health problems such as headaches, stomachaches, cuts and abrasions. Without health insurance, sufficient money, and knowledge of the available health services, such health problems are often ignored or endured until returning to their country of origin.

The temporary campsites of farmworkers in San Diego do not have running water, toilet facilities or cooking facilities. This worker sits on a plastic can that previously held poisonous pesticide chemicals. Farmworkers fill such containers with water to drink and wash their dishes.

Lacking housing, farmworkers in San Diego build makeshift shelters. Such shelters offer little protection from the rain and cold.

Many farmworkers in San Diego live in canyons where they often share a makeshift campsite. These farmworkers face possible health problems due to spoiled food because they do not have a way to store food, trash builds up around the campsite and there is a lack of toilet facilities.

Mexican workers hauling hay in the San Gabriel Valley, California, 1890s.

Bracero at the U.S. border.

Pecan shellers in San Antonio in the 1930s.

A cotton picker in 1933.

Mexican bracero during World War II.

Field workers—South Carolina, 1940s. (Courtesy of Sherman E.Pyatt.)