- National Center for Farmworker Health (NCFH)
Provides a range of services dedicated to improving the health of the workers who harvest America's crops.
www.ncfh.org
- Ch?vez, C?sar (1927-1993)@
Learn more about Cesar Chavez, the labor leader, civil rights activist, and co-founder of the United Farm Workers, through sites providing biography and articles.
dir.yahoo.com/.../United_Farm_Workers__UFW_/Chavez__Cesar__1927_1993_
- Farmworkers' Website, The
Dedicated to educating the public about the plight of agricultural workers. Includes Sin Fronteras Organizing Project, the Bracero Project, and El Paso del Norte.
www.farmworkers.org
- Huerta, Dolores@
Read about Dolores Huerta, the co-founder of United Farm Workers. Sites provide biography and info on the Dolores Huerta Foundation, a nonprofit organization.
dir.yahoo.com/.../United_Farm_Workers__UFW_/Huerta__Dolores
- In the Strawberry Fields
Offers a case study of both the dependence on an imported peasantry that characterizes much of American agriculture and the destructive consequences of a deliberate low-wage economy.
www.theatlantic.com/issues/95nov/strawber.htm
- Fight in the Fields: C?sar Ch?vez and the Farmworkers' Struggle
Film by Rick Tejada-Flores and Ray Telles presents the life of the charismatic leader of the UFU, C?sar Ch?vez.
www.pbs.org/itvs/fightfields
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