Farm Workers 
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
12/14/2022
The Farm Workforce Modernization Act Raises Troubling Echoes
by Matt Garcia
The support of the United Farm Workers for the bill cuts against the organization's origins in opposition to the Bracero guestworker program, and signals its shift toward advocacy of global responsibility initiatives in the food supply chain. Other labor organizations believe the bill would reestablish indentured servitude in farm work.
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SOURCE: U.S. Department of Agriculture
9/29/2022
Mireya Loza's History of Farm Work Will Shape Equity in Agriculture Industry
“We should not be creating a system in which guest workers are exploited and exploitable, and we're basically justifying it by saying, well, they're feeding their families.”
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5/3/2020
If Farmworkers Are “Essential,” Why Are They Treated So Badly?
by Lawrence Wittner
Farmworkers are essential. Our government, businesses and laws treat them as expendable.
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SOURCE: Huff Post
3-30-14
New film about Cesar Chavez
Many people thought Cesar Chavez was crazy to think he could build a union among migrant farmworkers.
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