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SERIES: Pastures of Plenty: A History of California Farm Workers

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Pieces in Series 4
Licensor Rachel Anne Goodman
Producer(s) Rachel Anne Goodman
Formats Documentary
Topics Historical, Labor
Produced February, 2007
Added to PRX February 28, 2007
 

Summary:

A four-part series on farm labor and immigration.

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Website:

http://www.coastridge.org/pastures/index.html

Additional Credits and Funding:

Host: Luiz Valdez (Zoot Suit, La Bamba)
Funding: California Council for the Humanities

Timely on:

March 31: Cesar Chavez' birthday/Hispanic History Month

Tones:

Engaging, Real, Thorough

Language:

English

Description:

Pastures of Plenty is a four-part radio series exploring the lives of farm workers in California from Statehood to the present. California is the top-producing agricultural state in the U.S., and as such, relies heavily on manual labor to feed the nation and the world. But who are those people bent over the rows? We usually see them from a distance. This series brings them up close. Through oral histories of workers and their descendants, historians, and archival audio, we hear about how lives were built, and some times broken, in the fields of California.

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OTHER PIECES from Rachel Anne Goodman (5)

  • Pastures of Plenty: The Future of Farm Labor
  • Pastures of Plenty: Destination El Norte: Braceros and Campesinos
  • Pastures of Plenty: Hard Times in the Country: The Depression Years
  • Pastures of Plenty: Sailing East: Chinese, Japanese and Filipinos in the Fields
  • The Boomtown Chronicles: Reflections on a Changing California

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  • Pastures of Plenty: The Future of Farm Labor
    Rachel Anne Goodman , 54:00
  • Pastures of Plenty: Destination El Norte: Braceros and Campesinos
    Rachel Anne Goodman , 54:00
  • Pastures of Plenty: Hard Times in the Country: The Depression Years
    Rachel Anne Goodman , 54:00
  • Pastures of Plenty: Sailing East: Chinese, Japanese and Filipinos in the Fields
    Rachel Anne Goodman , 54:00
  • The Boomtown Chronicles: Reflections on a Changing California
    Rachel Anne Goodman , 59:00
 
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