I Am Not a Tractor!: How Florida Farmworkers Took on the Fast Food Giants and Won

by Susan L Marquis and Susan L. Marquis

Book Overview

I Am Not a Tractor celebrates the courage, vision, and creativity of the farmworkers and community leaders who have transformed one of the worst agricultural situations in the United States into one of the best. Susan L. Marquis highlights past abuses workers suffered in Florida's tomato fields: toxic pesticide exposure, beatings, sexual assault, rampant wage theft, and even, astonishingly, modern-day slavery. Marquis unveils how, even...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501713086
• ISBN13: 9781501713088
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: ILR Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher