1. The Anarchist Collectives
   Workers' Self-Management in the Spanish Revolution 1936-1939
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1974
   Examines the experiments in workers' self-management, both urban and rural, which took place in Spain during the revolution and Civil War.
2. Beyond the Fields
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2011
   There is a strong historical link between the United Farm Workers in its heyday and myriad forms of progressive activism today. UFW alumni, ideas, and strategies have influenced Latino political empowerment, the immigrant rights movement, union membership growth, and on-going coalitions between labor, community, campus, and religious groups.
3. Bracero History Archive
   Resource Type: Database
   The Bracero History Archive collects and makes available the oral histories and artifacts pertaining to the Bracero program, a guest worker initiative that spanned the years 1942-1964. Millions of Mexican agricultural workers crossed the border under the program to work in more than half of the states in America.
4. La Causa
   The California Grape Strike
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1970
   A documentary of the California grape workers' strike.
5. Cesar Chavez, the United Farm Workers, and the Question of Unions in Contemporary Capitalism
   Review of Frank Bardacke, Trampling Out The Vintage: Cesar Chavez and the Two Souls of the United Farm Workers
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2013
   Bardacke tells the story of one movement’s evolution from grassroots obscurity to such (relatively little-known) successes as the Salinas Valley (California) general strike of lettuce pickers in 1979—a veritable mass strike in Rosa Luxemburg’s sense—and from there to the collapsed shell of a union nonetheless administering fourteen non-profits with millions in assets.
6. Chávez, César
   Connexipedia Article
   Resource Type: Article
   Mexican American farm worker, labour leader, and civil rights activist who, with Dolores Huerta, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers (UFW). (1927-1993).
7. Common Sense for Hard Times
   The Power of the Powerless to Cope with Everyday life and Transform Society in The Nineteen Seventies
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1976
   Presents a vision of society as it is and as it could be. Putting the problems of contemporary daily life in historical perspective, it reveals that they have their roots in the way our society is organized, and thereby enables us to re-examine our own situation and experience.
   
8. Connexions
   Volume 6, Number 1 - February 1981 - Lesbians/Gay Men/Lesbiennes/Hommes Gais
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   Published: 1981
   
9. Connexions
   Volume 6, Number 4 - November 1981 - Unorganized Workers/Travailleurs Non-Organises
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   Published: 1981
   
10. Connexions
    Volume 9, Number 1 - Spring 1984 - Energy - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1984
    
11. Connexions
    Volume 9, Number 2 - Summer 1984 - Rights and Liberties - A Digest of Resources & Groups for Social
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1984
    
12. Connexions Digest
    Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1989
    
13. Connexions Library: Agriculture and Farming Focus
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2009
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on farming and agriculture.
14. Connexions Library: Labour and Unions Focus
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2009
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on labour and unions.
15. Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2012
    The searing account of Chris Hedges' and Joe Sacco's travels to sacrifice zones, those areas in the United States where human beings and the natural world are used and then discarded to maximize profit, places that have been offered up for maximum exploitation in the name of profit and progress.
16. Delano grape strike
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A strike, boycott, and secondary boycott led by the United Farm Workers (UFW) against growers of table grapes in California.
17. Denying health coverage to injured migrant workers is shameful
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Imagine getting injured at work, and instead of going to a hospital or seeing your health-care provider, you are deported from Canada.
18. Epifanio Camacho: a Militant Farmworker Brushed Out of History
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2019
    Biographical info on Epifanio Camacho, a labor activist who fought alongside the less militant Cesar Chavez. He has been largely forgotten by history.
19. Farming Freedom
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    A simple agricultural technique could release farmers from the grip of agrochemical corporations. With no patents, no royalties and no licensing fees, this system just benefits the farmers.
20. Farmworker Movement Documentation Project
    The Farmworker Movement: 1962-1993: Primary source accounts by the UFW volunteers who built the movement
    Resource Type: Website
    The Farmworker Movement Documentation Project, founded in 2003 by LeRoy Chatfield, is a labor of love. The project seeks to compile and publish primary source accounts from the volunteers who worked with Cesar Chavez to build his farmworker movement during the period, 1962-1993.
21. 50 Years Later, Protesters in Texas Reenact a Farmworker Strike That Is Scarcely Mentioned in History Books
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    In the summer of 1966, hundreds of farm workers in Texas marched from Rio Grande City to Austin -- almost 500 miles over 90 days -- to demand change. They weren’t asking for anything fancy. They wanted better wages, restrooms and uncontaminated water for the people cultivating and picking melons and other crops. Now 50 years later, more than 100 people -- some who were at the original strike in Starr County -- are are marching again.
22. Fill the gap: Ontario should insure injured migrant workers
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    We want to sound the alarm over the unjust federal and provincial immigration and health policies that are based on the exploitation of human labour and xenophobia. Migrants increasingly enter Canada to work under temporary foreign worker programs through which they are denied equitable access to services while still being required to pay taxes.
23. Food Chains
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Published: 2014
    In this exposé, an intrepid group of Florida farmworkers battle to defeat the $4 trillion global supermarket industry through their ingenious Fair Food program, which partners with growers and retailers to improve working conditions for farm labourers in the United States.
24. Foodies and farmworkers: Allies or enemies?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Fred Magdoff reviews Labor and the Locavore. Can the 'buy local food' movement support both sustainable farming and justice for farmworkers?
25. Huerta, Dolores
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    The co-founder of the United Farm Workers of America, AFL-CIO, and prominent member of the Democratic Socialists of America. (Born 1930).
26. Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
    Volume II: The Politics of Social Classes
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1978
    Draper ranges through the development of the thought of Marx and Engels on the role of classes in society.
27. Mapping UFW Strikes, Boycotts, and Farm Worker Actions 1965-1975
    Resource Type: Unclassified
    When ethnic Mexican farm workers led by Cesar Chavez joined with Filipino American workers led by Larry Itliong in 1965 to strike grape growers in Delano, California, the modern farm workers movement was born. Operating initially as the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee and later as the UFW, the union spread beyond California as it launched a national grape boycott and inspired farm worker organizing in other states. Researched by Katie Anastas, these maps show the geography of UFW activism, locating more than 1,000 farm worker strikes, boycotts, and other actions.
28. Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 4
    Marx and Engels 1844 - 1845
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1845
    Includes The Holy Family, or Critique of Critical Criticism, and The Condition of the Working-Class in England.
29. Migrant farmworkers ask Trudeau for Permanent Residency in Canada as they announce caravan to Ottawa
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    Migrant farmworker group Justice for Migrant Workers is launching Harvesting Freedom, a year-long campaign for immigration status upon arrival for migrant farmworkers to mark the 50th anniversary of the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (SAWP).
30. The Old Braceros Fight On
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    Dozens of men assemble to remember their lives as contract guest workers in the United States and discuss the latest news or lack thereof in their decades-old movement to recover the 10 percent that was deducted from their paychecks and supposedly deposited in a savings account created for the return to Mexico under the old Bracero Program.
31. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - September 24, 2015
    Voter Suppression
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2015
    Featuring information and articles related to the October 19, 2015 Canadian election. The topic of the week is Voter Suppression, with articles about voter suppression in Canada and the United States.
32. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 21, 2018
    What are we eating?
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2018
    What are we eating? A simple question which opens up a labyrinth of devilishly complex issues about production and distribution, access to land, control of water, prices, health and safety, migrant labour, and much else.
    For millions of people, the answer is brutally simple: not enough to survive. UNICEF estimates that 300 million children go to bed hungry each night, and that more than 8,000 children under the age of five die of malnutrition every day. The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that 12% of the world's population is chronically malnourished.
    How is this possible in a world where there is an enormous surplus of food, where farmers are paid not to grow food?
    A short answer is that food production and distribution are driven by the need to make profits, rather than by human needs.
33. Our Generation
    Volume 9 Number 4
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1973
    
34. Pesticides, Neoliberalism and the Politics of Acceptable Death
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    In 1900, cancer killed three people in America out of every hundred. Today, it's 33 out of every 100 -- more than one-in-four Americans die from cancer. These figures come from Dr. Joseph Weissman, a professor of medicine at UCLA. Weissman reckons that a fair slice of this explosion in cancer mortality can be laid at the door of petro-chemicals, particularly those used by the food industry.
35. Pilbara strike of 1946
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A strike by Indigenous Australian pastoral workers in the Pilbara region of Western Australia for human rights recognition and payment of fair wages and working conditions.
36. Promises......Promises
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1981
    
37. Scattered Sand
    The Story of China's Rural Migrants
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2012
    Each year, 200 million workers from China’s vast rural interior travel between cities and provinces in search of employment: the largest human migration in history. This indispensable army of labour accounts for half of China’s GDP, but is an unorganized workforce — “scattered sand,” in Chinese parlance — and the most marginalized and impoverished group of workers in the country.
38. Sugar and Sugarworkers: A Popular Report of the International Sugarworkers Conference
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1978
    
39. United Farmworkers
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1989
    
40. US farm fatalities: An unpublicized epidemic
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Hundreds of agricultural workers, including many child labourers, die in farming accidents across the US each year. With an official workplace fatality rate of more than 21 per 100,000, farming is the most dangerous occupation in America. It is also among the lowest paid and least regulated.

Experts on Farmworkers in the Sources Directory

1. International Labor Rights Forum