Latin American Studies

Q&A with Seth Holmes, author of Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies

Now updated with a new prologue and epilogue, Seth Holmes’ bestselling book Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States, With a Foreword by Philippe Bourgois shows how market forces, …

Scaling Migrant Worker Rights: How Advocates Collaborate and Contest State Power

By Xochitl Bada and Shannon Gleeson

Low-wage labor in the United States is characterized by egregiously low minimum wage standards, insufficient health and safety protections, and a civil rights regime that does little to address structural racism. 

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