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"David Bacon reminds Americans of something we often forget: that
NAFTA is meant to be a multilateral agreement, and that it was
supposed to bring huge benefits to Mexico. Did it? Bravo to David
Bacon for his tough-minded, unsparing portrait of working life at
globalization's ground zero."--Ray Suarez, senior correspondent,
The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, and author of "The Old Neighborhood:
What We Lost in the Great Suburban Migration"David Bacon brings to
life the heroes and villains on the front lines of the battle for
human dignity under NAFTA--the world's most extreme experiment in
free market fundamentalism."--Sarah Anderson, Director, Global
Economy Project, Institute for Policy Studies"Built from vivid,
firsthand accounts, this is an extraordinary mural portrait of a
border that few North Americans know anything about: of a working
class fighting for survival on the unequal playing ground of NAFTA,
where labor rights are almost always dishonored and where activists
often end up blacklisted, jailed, or even desparecido. Bacon
wonderfully coveys the passion, urgency and historical importance
of the daily struggles to humanize the cold ultra-capitalist world
of NAFTA."--Mike Davis, author of "City of Quartz: Excavating the
Future in Los Angeles"David Bacon has put a human face on the
devastating impact of NAFTA on workers here and abroad. Our
economic future as a nation depends on the knowledge contained in
this book. A must read! !Si Se Puede!"--Dolores Huerta, Co-founder,
United Farm Workers Union, President, Dolores Huerta
Foundation"David Bacon represents the fine old tradition of
American working-class journalism at its best. He's gone
everywhere--from tiny Mexican villages tothe baking hot fields of
California agribusiness--to get the real lowdown on NAFTA's effects
on the blue collar people who hardly ever get a hearing in the
mainstream press."--Barbara Ehrenreich, author of "Nickel and Dimed
""David Bacon's new book blows away the ideological fog that has
surrounded the North American Free Trade Agreement for a
decade."--Jeff Faux, Economic Policy Institute
In this landmark work of photo-journalism, activist and
photographer David Bacon documents the experiences of some of the
hardest-working and most disenfranchised laborers in the country:
the farmworkers who are responsible for making California
"America's breadbasket." Combining haunting photographs with the
voices of migrant farmworkers, Bacon offers three-dimensional
portraits of laborers living under tarps, in trailer camps, and
between countries, following jobs that last only for the harvesting
season. He uncovers the inherent abuse in the labor contractor work
system, and drives home the almost feudal nature of laboring in
America's fields. Told in both English and Spanish, these are the
stories of farmworkers exposed to extreme weather and pesticides,
injured from years of working bent over for hours at a time, and
treated as cheap labor. The stories in this book remind us that the
food that appears on our dinner tables is the result of
back-breaking labor, rampant exploitation, and powerful resilience.
The story of the growing resistance of Mexican communities to the
poverty that forces people to migrate to the United States
People across Mexico are being forced into migration, and while 11
percent of that country's population lives north of the US border,
the decision to migrate is rarely voluntary. Free trade agreements
and economic policies that exacerbate and reinforce extreme wealth
disparities make it impossible for Mexicans to make a living at
home. And yet when they migrate to the United States, they must
grapple with criminalization, low wages, and exploitation.
In "The Right to Stay Home," journalist David Bacon tells the
story of the growing resistance of Mexican communities. Bacon shows
how immigrant communities are fighting back--envisioning a world in
which migration isn't forced by poverty or environmental
destruction and people are guaranteed the "right to stay home."
This richly detailed and comprehensive portrait of immigration
reveals how the interconnected web of labor, migration, and the
global economy unites farmers, migrant workers, and union
organizers across borders.
In addition to incisive reporting, eleven narratives are included,
giving readers the chance to hear the voices of activists
themselves as they reflect on their experiences, analyze the
complexities of their realities, and affirm their vision for a
better world.
Full Title: "Trial of Henry B. Hagerman, Esq. on an Indictment for
an Assault and Battery, With Intent to Murder; Committed on William
Coleman, Esq."Description: "The Making of the Modern Law: Trials,
1600-1926" collection provides descriptions of the major trials
from over 300 years, with official trial documents, unofficially
published accounts of the trials, briefs and arguments and more.
Readers can delve into sensational trials as well as those
precedent-setting trials associated with key constitutional and
historical issues and discover, including the Amistad Slavery case,
the Dred Scott case and Scopes "monkey" trial."Trials" provides
unfiltered narrative into the lives of the trial participants as
well as everyday people, providing an unparalleled source for the
historical study of sex, gender, class, marriage and
divorce.++++The below data was compiled from various identification
fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is
provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition
identification: ++++Court RecordNew York City BarNew-York: Printed
by Oram and Mott, No. 5 Burling-Slip. 1818
When we finally arrived at my brother's house in the United States,
I thought about how far I was from home in Mexico. I looked back,
saw the sun setting, and thought about my father and what he might
be doing. I thought, 'Why did I come so far, and how am I going to
return?' Before I left my father asked me why I wanted to leave. He
said he thought we would never see each other again. My brother
told him not to worry and that he would return me in a year. . . .
He was right, because we never did. Irma Luna recalls her
experience of migration, from Communities without BordersIn his
stunning work of photojournalism and oral history, David Bacon
documents the new reality of migrant experience: the creation of
transnational communities. Today's indigenous migrants don't simply
move from one point to another but create new communities all along
the northern road from Guatemala through Mexico into the United
States, connected by common culture and history. Drawing on his
experience as a photographer and a journalist and also as a former
labor organizer, Bacon portrays the lives of the people who migrate
between Guatemala and Mexico and the United States. He takes us
inside these communities and illuminates the ties that bind them
together, the influence of their working conditions on their
families and health, and their struggle for better lives. Bacon
portrays in photographs and their own words Mixtec and Triqui
migrants in Oaxaca, Baja California, and California; Guatemalan
migrants in Huehuetenango and Nebraska; miners and indigenous
communities in Sonora and Arizona; and veterans of the bracero
program of the 1940s and 1950s. Bacon's interviews with this first
wave of guest workers are especially relevant in light of the
current political focus on guest-worker programs as a model for
reforming immigration, an approach with which Bacon strongly
disagrees.Throughout Communities without Borders, Bacon emphasizes
the social movements migrants organize to improve their own working
conditions and the well-being of their enclaves. U.S. border policy
treats undocumented immigrants as an aggregation of individuals,
ignoring the social pressures that force whole communities to move
and the networks of families and hometowns that sustain them on
their journeys. Communities without Borders makes an urgent appeal
for understanding the human reality that should inform our national
debate over immigration."
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