Just looking at the Pacific Northwest's many verdant forests and fields, it may be hard to imagine the intense work it took to transform the region into the agricultural powerhouse it is today. Much of this labor was provided by Mexican guest workers, Tejano migrants, and undocumented immigrants. Of Forests and Fields tells the story of these workers.
Just looking at the Pacific Northwest's many verdant forests and fields, it may be hard to imagine the intense work it took to transform the region into the agricultural powerhouse it is today. Much of this labor was provided by Mexican guest workers, Tejano migrants, and undocumented immigrants. Of Forests and Fields tells the story of these workers.
MARIO JIMENEZ SIFUENTEZ is an assistant professor of history at the University of California, Merced.
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Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Many Miles from Home: The Bracero Program in the Pacific Northwest 2 Los Tejanos: The Texas-Mexican Diaspora in Oregon 3 The Genesis of the Willamette Valley Immigration Project 4 Whip that Hoedad in the Ground: Undocumented Workers in the National Forest 5 "Now I Can Hold My Own With Anybody": IRCA, Immigrant Organizing, and the Pineros y Campesinos Unidos Noroeste (PCUN) 6 Huelga!: PCUN and Organizing Farm Workers in the Willamette Valley Epilogue: La Lucha Sigue . . . Notes Index
Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Many Miles from Home: The Bracero Program in the Pacific Northwest 2 Los Tejanos: The Texas-Mexican Diaspora in Oregon 3 The Genesis of the Willamette Valley Immigration Project 4 Whip that Hoedad in the Ground: Undocumented Workers in the National Forest 5 "Now I Can Hold My Own With Anybody": IRCA, Immigrant Organizing, and the Pineros y Campesinos Unidos Noroeste (PCUN) 6 Huelga!: PCUN and Organizing Farm Workers in the Willamette Valley Epilogue: La Lucha Sigue . . . Notes Index
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