With These Hands documents the farm labor system through the presentation of a collection of voices—workers who labor in the fields, growers who manage the multi-billion dollar agricultural industry, contractors who link workers with growers, coyotes who smuggle people across the border, union organizers, lobbyists, physicians, workers' families in Mexico, farmworker children and others. The diversity of stories presents the world of migrant farmworkers as a complex social and economic system, a network of intertwined lives, showing how all Americans are bound to the struggles and contributions of our nation's farm laborers.

Daniel Rothenberg is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan.

"[This] is a fresh and sobering account of a familiar tale of poverty and policy failures. The final product is a mosaic of textured portraits, not a two-dimensional description of downtrodden laborers and evil overseers."—New York Times

"This is oral history at its best."—New York Times Book Review

"There are hands at both ends of the food chain. That is what Daniel Rothenberg strives so mightily and successfully to show us in this book, an engrossing and often surprising collection of oral histories."—San Diego Union Tribune

"What makes this book so important is that it allows us to see into the lives of those who do the stoop labor to put that lovely salad on our tables. With These Hands is a unique and valuable documentary work that skillfully presents the voices of laborers and others, helping us to understand our connection to the world of America's farmworkers."—Studs Terkel