San Antonio College Library

"This is an obscure but really moving novel about an indigenous man from southern Mexico trying to become to get to the U.S. and become a bracero [guest worker] in the 1950s."--Goodreads

With These Hands presents the world of migrant farmworkers as a complex social and economic system, a network of intertwined lives. The book includes the voices of the growers, farm labor contractors, union organizers, government investigators, coyotes, doctors, teachers, and workers' families living in other countries. No one story, no single truth, can adequately express the farmworkers' world; but this book presents its complexity in vivid and...

In '...and the earth did not swallow him' Tomás Rivera presents the life of the peasants of Texas during the 1950s with all their sorrows and joys. The narrator is a young man lost in the shadows of labor exploitation and continually mystified by his interactions in America -- its alien society and institutions. Between constant migration and clashes with bosses and school officials, the young man has to forge his own identity. At the same time that...

Monograph on rural migrant workers (rural workers) in the USA - covers migration trends and patterns, irregular migrants, working conditions and living conditions of migrants, child labour and access to education among migrant children, etc. References.