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Chavez, Cesar 1927-1993 Chavez, Cesar 1927-1993 Juvenile literature Food supply United States Labor leaders Mexican American migrant agricultural laborers Mexican American migrant agricultural laborers Biography Juvenile literature Migrant agricultural laborers Labor unions United Farm Workers History Juvenile literature United Farm Workers. United StatesJager, Ronald.
Summary: The Fate of Family Farming employs a hands-on approach, with much local New England detail, in its exploration of the history and future of American family farming, both as an idea and as an ongoing way of life.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of New England 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.16 JAGSummary: Using historical footage and dramatic reenactments, this film focuses on one of the seminal events in the march for human rights -- the grape strike and boycott led by César Chávez and Dolores Huerta in the 1960s. Thousands of people from across the nation joined in a struggle for justice for the some of the most exploited people in the United States.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Southern Poverty Law Center 2012
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC VIVSummary: Documents the trend of unlabeled genetically-modified foods which have become increasingly prevalent in grocery stores. Unravels the complex web of market and political forces that are changing the nature of what we eat. Explores organic and sustainable agriculture as alternatives to large-scale industrial agriculture.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Arts Alliance America 2007
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Summary: ""Viva La Huelga! Viva La Causa!" Discover the true story behind Cesar Chavez and the Delano Grape Strike, as he and the National Farm Workers Association set out on an incredible three-hundred-mile protest march in support of farmworkers' rights."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 CHABrown, Monica
Summary: A powerful and accesible bilingual picture book that highlights "the power and impact of ordinary but dedicated citizens." Every day, thousands of farmworkers harvested the food that ended up on kitchen tables all over the country. But at the end of the day, when the workers sat down to eat, there were only beans on their own tables. Then Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez teamed up. Together they...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG BROCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG BROFrerick, Austin
Summary: "Barons is the story of seven corporate titans, their rise to power, and the consequences for everyone else. Take Mike McCloskey, Chairman of Fair Oaks Farms. In a few short decades, he went from managing a modest dairy herd to running the Disneyland of agriculture, where school children ride trams through mechanized warehouses filled with tens of thousands of cows that never see the light of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Island Press 2024
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Summary: "Ever wonder if there's a better way to live, work, and eat? You're not alone. Here is the story of five back-to-the-land movements, from 1840 to present day, when large numbers of utopian-minded people in the United States took action to establish small-scale farming as an alternative to mainstream agriculture. Then and now, it's the story of people striving to live freely and fight injustice,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Godine 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 334 KELRau, Dana Meachen
Summary: Presents an account of the life of the Mexican American labor activist who helped organize the migrant farm workers and establish a union to fight for their rights.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BASKET CHAVEZBittman, Mark.
Summary: "Mark Bittman made headlines three years ago when it was revealed that, for the first time, the New York Times opinion page would feature a food writer to help us make sense of the tangled webs of food, health, environment, politics, and culture. As an opinion columnist, Mark has delighted us, enraged us, and inspired us to do more for ourselves and our world with the same no-nonsense style. In...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clarkson Potter 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338 BITYoussef, Jagger
Summary: "The life story of Cesar Chavez, one of the most influential labor leaders of the twentieth century resonates today. In this significant biography, readers will learn about the man who rose from migrant field worker to become a champion of the voiceless. The narrative interweaves Chavez's own powerful words throughout biographical text. Historic photographs bring the fascinating figure to life,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 CHACarlisle, Liz.
Summary: The story of the Lentil Underground begins on a 280-acre homestead rooted in America’s Great Plains: the Oien family farm. Forty years ago, corporate agribusiness told small farmers like the Oiens to “get big or get out.” But twenty-seven-year-old David Oien decided to take a stand, becoming the first in his conservative Montana county to plant a radically different crop: organic lentils....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gotham Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 630 CARElmore, Bartow J.
Summary: "A deeply researched and eye-opening history that shows how Monsanto came to have outsized influence over our food system. This is the definitive history of Monsanto, a St. Louis chemical firm that became the world's largest genetically engineered seed enterprise. Monsanto merged with German pharma-biotech giant Bayer in 2018, but its Roundup Ready seeds, introduced twenty-five years ago, are...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.7 ELMThomas, William G.
Summary: The story of the longest and most complex legal challenge to slavery in American history, in which a number of enslaved families challenged their bondage in court.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 THOImhoff, Dan
Summary: The Farm Bill is one of the most important pieces of legislation the American president signs. Negotiated every five to seven years, it has tremendous implications for food production, nutrition assistance, habitat conservation, international trade, and much more. Yet at nearly 1,000 pages, it is difficult to understand for policymakers, let alone citizens. In this primer, Dan Imhoff and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Island Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.8 IMHBittman, Mark
Summary: "From hunting and gathering to GMOs and ultraprocessed foods, this expansive tour of human history rewrites the story of our species-and points the way to a better future"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 394.1 BITCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Food Bittman 2021Newport, Cal
Summary: "The author of Digital Minimalism and Deep Work offers a philosophy for pursuing meaningful accomplishment while avoiding overload. History's most creative and impactful philosophers, scientists, artists, and writers mastered the art of producing valuable work with staying power. In this book, Cal Newport harnesses the wisdom of these traditional knowledge workers to transform modern jobs....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Portfolio/Penguin, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2024
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Summary: Through meticulous research, Hauter presents a shocking account of how agricultural policy has been hijacked by lobbyists, driving out independent farmers and food processors in favor of the likes of Cargill, Tyson, Kraft, and ConAgra. She demonstrates how the impacts ripple far and wide, from economic stagnation in rural communities at home, to famines in poor countries overseas. In the end,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.1 HAUVogel, Sarah
Summary: In the early 1980s, farmers were suffering through the worst economic crisis to hit rural America since the Great Depression. Land prices were down, operating costs and interest rates were up, and severe weather devastated crops. Instead of receiving assistance from the government as they had in the 1930s, these hardworking family farmers were threatened with foreclosure by the very agency that...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 343.73 VOGGreen, Sara
Summary: "Engaging images accompany information about John Deere. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bellwether Media, Inc. 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 338 GRERobin, Marie-Monique.
Summary: Veteran French journalist and filmmaker Robin had just finished documentaries on genetic manipulation and the loss of biodiversity in food crops when she was urged to investigate the US seed and poison corporation associated with the most damaging behavior in those areas. She discusses Monsanto as one of the greatest polluters in industrial history, the great conspiracy, and the how...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.766 ROBCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.766 ROBSummary: A farmworker sneaks across the border from Mexico into California in an effort to make money to send to his family back home. It is a story that happens every day, told here in an uncompromising, groundbreaking work of realism from American independent filmmaker Robert M. Young. Vivid and spare where other films about illegal immigration might sentimentalize, Young's take on the subject is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ALAWendel, C. H. (Charles H.)
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Krause Publications 1997