1950s farm workers




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File Name
V-0062F_002_001
Period
1959
Format
16mm
Length
00:02:35
Pricing
Regular rate
Timecode start:
0:00
Timecode stop:
2:35
Additional copies:
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documentary - audio - documents late 1950s farm labor conditions in California’s fields - immigrants - braceros - child labor - Farm labor Office sign - workers wait outside office - Mexican workers ride in open truck - workers get off buses - braceros in fields - bread line with white workers - men enter charity soup kitchen - trucks by loaded with produce - distribution center - exposes how the Bracero program imported Mexican nationals at wages lower than the subminimum rates available to American workers - used by the Farm Workers Organizing Committee, AWOC, and the United Packinghouse workers union as an organizing film - poverty - poor - Latinos