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The Hands That Feed Us: Investigating Labor in the Global Food SystemWinter 2014Tuesday & Thursday 2 – 3:50, Stephen E. Epler Hall Room 106Amy K Coplen, Instructor, Portland State UniversityOffice hours by appointment: acoplen@pdx.edu

This course takes a critical and interdisciplinary approach to investigating labor in the fields, factories, and kitchens where our food is grown, processed, and prepared. We will focus on the relationships between political, economic, social, and environmental factors operating within our food system and explore how transnational processes are expressed on the local, community, and individual scales. We will pay particular attention to racialized and gendered divisions of labor, transnational flows of people and capital, and the unequal distribution of benefits and burdens within food systems. We will also draw heavily on organized efforts to address these inequalities and achieve more just labor arrangements. Class sessions will include discussion-based seminars, multi-media presentations, and field trips to learn from local organizations engaged in food labor organizing. By the end of the term, students will be equipped with the analytical skills required to critically examine the state of globalized food production and to envision a more socially just and ecologically sustainable food system.

We will begin by developing a basic and shared understanding of the labor process under capitalism. We will then use this foundation to explore labor in the global food system. Our enquiry will be organized around specific themes, including migrant labor and farm work, gendered and racial divisions of labor, foodservice, tensions of alternative food movements, labor organizing, and charity and decommodified forms feeding.

Expectations

This class should push you to engage in (sometimes uncomfortable) conversations about race, class, and gender. Different perspectives, experiences, and ways of knowing make for important learning opportunities and fruitful discussion. Please be open to hearing other opinions, be a patient listener, and be respectful of your peers, especially when you disagree. Everyone must join in the discussion. If you’re shy, push yourself to talk. If you’re a talker, be conscientious not to dominate the discussion. If you are struggling to engage, please talk to me and let me know how I can support you.

Let me know well in advance if you aren’t able to make it to class, if you are struggling to complete reading and other assignments, or if you are having any problems in the course. Early and honest communication is critical to your success in the class.

Turn off cell-phones. Use of laptops is okay for note taking only. Please no Facebook or email! I may ask that laptops be put away for particular discussions and activities.

Attendance Policy Please show respect to me and to your fellow classmates by being on time. Always email me a day or so in advance if you are unable to come to class. Missing three classes drops your grade one letter. Missing five classes is an automatic fail for the course.

Taste and TellOnce during the term, students will participate in “taste and tell” by sharing a food, recipe, photo, or story that is culturally important. Students will spend 3-5 minutes introducing their item, describing its significance, and briefly discussing its relationship to labor. This is meant to be a fun cultural exchange, and really anything goes. Please don’t feel obligated to spend money, but please do spend some time preparing to share your story with us.

Academic IntegrityYou are upper-level college students so I don’t need to elaborate on this. I take this seriously, as I expect you to. Always cite your sources!

Academic Accommodations and Other Campus ResourcesIf you are a student with a documented disability, are registered with the Disability Resource Center (DRC), please contact me immediately to facilitate arranging academic accommodations. Students who believe they are eligible for accommodations but who have not yet obtained approval through the DRC should contact the DRC immediately: 116 Smith Memorial Student Union ; 503-725-4150; drc@pdx.edu; http://www.drc.pdx.edu/.

• Office of Diversity & Multicultural Student Services, Smith 425, http://www.pdx.edu/dmss/

• Learning Center, Millar Library 245, http://www.pdx.edu/tutoring/ • Writing Center, Cramer 188, http://www.writingcenter.pdx.edu/

Evaluation

Your grade in this class will be based on participation (25%), a short book review (25%), and a final paper/project (50%).

Summary of Due Dates January 22nd: Choice of book for review due in class. February 5th: Draft book review due for peer review and submitted to D2L

dropbox. February 10th: Final book review due to D2L dropbox by 5pm. February 10th: Oral presentations on book reviews. February 12th: 500-word memo about your plan for your final project due to

D2L. February 26th: Draft of paper/project for in-class peer review. March 10th and 12th: Final paper/project presentations. More details to follow. March 16th: Final papers/projects due to D2L dropbox by 5pm.

Participation (25%)Your participation grade will include an evaluation of your participation in class discussions (5%), weekly discussion question posts to D2L (10%), and your co-facilitation of discussion during one class session (10%). This is a discussion-driven seminar. You are responsible for competing all of the assigned reading and coming to class ready to discuss your thoughts, reactions, and questions about the assigned readings.

Discussion Question Posts to D2LDuring weeks 2-4 and 6-9 Students will post one or two questions to the week’s Discussion Questions forum on D2L by 11pm on the Monday before class . Everyone is expected to review these questions before class on Tuesday. You are encouraged to engage with your peers through the online discussion forum by replying to their posts. Questions should be framed within the context of the reading to demonstrate that you are engaging with assigned readings and to help your peers understand your question in relation to the reading (e.g. “Author X writes ‘…,’ and I’m curious about how this relates to Y and I’m confused about Z.”).

Discussion FacilitationOnce during the term, you and a partner or two will present the week’s readings to the class and lead part of the discussion. This will involve briefly summarizing the readings, including their relationship to one another and to other course themes and readings, critically engaging with the readings’ arguments, and organizing discussion based on student’s discussion question posts to D2L. I will help wrangle discussion if it gets off topic and will also pose additional questions for discussion.

Book Review (25%)Prepare a short review (approximately 1,000 words) of a book about food labor. Summarize the main arguments and critically discuss the particular strengths and weaknesses of the book. Particular chapters can be examined in greater detail. I will

provide examples and more details about the content and structure of a book review.

Due dates for book review: January 22 nd : Choice of book for review due in class. February 5 th : Draft book review due for peer review and submitted to D2L

dropbox. February 10 th : Final book review due to D2L dropbox by 5pm. February 10 th : Oral presentations on book reviews.

Final Paper or Project (50%)The final paper or project is a flexible assignment that engages some of the material that we cover in class. I encourage you to think outside the box in crafting your paper/project. Feel free to use your skills, talents, and interests. I’m also open to group projects, but please consult with me ahead of time to make sure it is appropriate. Some ideas include:

Profile a particular food industry, sector of the food system, corporation, or organization

Create and distribute a primary school curriculum/lesson plan (e.g. http://www.tolerance.org/publication/injustice-our-plates)

Submit an op-ed related to food labor to a local newspaper Interview a food chain worker, or tell your own personal story about

working in food Create a podcast, short film, photoessay, or comic book related to food

labor Create a media campaign to educate the public about the plight of food

workers

Papers/projects will be evaluated based on their thoughtful and critical engagement with course themes. You might also consider focusing on a particular aspect of food labor that you see missing from the syllabus. In week 6 students will submit a short memo about their plan for the final paper/project and in week 8 students will conduct an in-class peer review of draft papers/projects. The last week of class, students will give short (5-10 minute) presentations on their papers/projects so that their peers can learn from their work.

Due dates for final paper/project: February 12 th : 500-word memo about your plan for your final paper/project

due to D2L dropbox before class starts. February 26 th : Draft of paper/project for in-class peer review. March 10 th and 12 th : Final paper/project presentations. More details to follow. March 16 th : Final papers/projects due to D2L dropbox by 5pm.

Reading and Class ScheduleWe will usually read about 45 pages of journal articles, book chapters, news articles, and reports each week (the first three weeks of class will be the most reading intensive with later weeks being lighter). Please see the Course Reading Schedule for a comprehensive list of readings and multi-media assignments to be completed

prior to class. Most of the readings have been uploaded to D2L, but some are available through PSU library online access and others can be accessed by following the links listed below. Be sure to check with the reading schedule below to make sure you have read all of the material for class (i.e. not all materials are on D2L and will need to be viewed online). Some class sessions will include visits from guest speakers, documentary viewings, or field trips to learn from local organizations engaged in food labor.

Week 1: Labor Under CapitalismJanuary 6 th

Introductions, identity exercise, and review of the syllabus, course expectations, and classroom etiquette

Classroom exercise – tracing the labor of a foodstuff along the supply chain

January 8 th Marx, Karl. 1976. Capital: A Critique of Political Economy. Volume 1. London: Penguin Classics: http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/

Chapter 1, Section 1: The Two Factors of the Commodity Chapter 4: The General Formula for Capital Chapter 7: The Labor Process and the Process of Producing Surplus Value

Week 2: Assessing the Food Labor LandscapeJanuary 13 th The Food Chain Workers Alliance. (2012). The Hands That Feed Us: Challenges and Opportunities for Workers Along the Food Chain. http://foodchainworkers.org/?page_id=1101

Read the Executive Summary and Chapters I, II, & III (but skim the worker profiles throughout) (pg. 1-47)

Quickly Scan Chapters IV, V, and VI

Pimbert, M. P., Thompson, J., & Vorley, W. T. (2001). Global Restructuring, Agri-Food Systems and Livelihoods. Gatekeeper Series, 100, 2-19.

January 15 th Film Screening of Food Chain$

Week 3: The Reproduction of Migrant LaborJanuary 20 th Burawoy, M. (1976). The functions and reproduction of migrant labor: comparative material from Southern Africa and the United States. American Journal of Sociology, 81(5), 1050–1087. Retrieved from http://burawoy.berkeley.edu/Southern Africa/Migrant Labor.pdf

Wilson, T. D. (2000). Anti-immigrant sentiment and the problem of reproduction/maintenance in Mexican immigration to the United States. Critique of Anthropology, 20(2), 191–213.

Holmes, S. (2013). Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies Migrant Farmworkers in the United States. Berkeley: University of California Press. (Available online from PSU Library).

pg. 12-13 & 40-43

January 22 nd Film screening of The Harvest/La Cosecha: The story of the children who feed AmericaDUE: Choice of book for review.

Week 4: Gendered and Racial Divisions of LaborJanuary 27 th Southern Poverty Law Center, November 2010. Injustice on Our Plates: Immigrant Women in the U.S. Food Industry. http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/publications/injustice-on-our-plates

Read the Executive Summary (pg. 4-5) Quickly scan Sections 1, 2, 3, and Recommendations

Deborah Barndt. 2004. “Fruits of Injustice: Women in the Post-NAFTA Food System.” 37-51 in Gerardo Otero, ed., Mexico in Transition: Neoliberal Globalism, the State and Civil Society. Fernwood/Zed.

Allen, P. and C. Sachs (2007). “Women and Food Chains: The Gendered Politics of Food.” International Journal of Sociology of Food and Agriculture 15(1): 1-23.

January 29 th Fruit Punch and Rebel Girls: The Women's Fruit Cannery Strike of 1913 and the Birth of a Portland Radical, by Heather Arndt Anderson, http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/fruit-punch-and-rebel-girls/Content?oid=11441905

Week 5: Book ReviewsFebruary 3 rd DUE: Draft book review due for in-class peer review

February 5 th DUE: Final book review. Submit to D2L dropbox by 5pm.DUE: Oral presentations on book reviews.

Week 6: Foodservice and Fast FoodFebruary 10 th Visit from Lindsay Goes Behind of Sisters of the Road Café

February 12 th DUE: 500-word memo about progress toward your final paper/project. Submitted to D2L before class starts.Allegretto, S., Doussard, M., Graham-Squire, D., Jacobs, K., Thompson, D., & Thompson, J. (2013). Fast Food, Poverty Wages: The Public cost of low-wage Jobs in the fast-food industry.

Read Executive Summary and Introduction pg. 1-2

Food Chain Workers Alliance, Food First and Restaurant Opportunities Center. (2014). The Food Insecurity of Restaurant Workers. (2014). Report: http://foodfirst.org/publication/food-insecurity-of-restaurant-workers/

Read Executive Summary pg. 3-7

Restaurant Opportunity Centers United. (2014). The Great Service Divide: Occupational Segregation & Inequality in the US Restaurant Industry.

Read Executive Summary pg. 2-5

Simon, B. (2008). “Consuming Lattes and Labor, or Working at Starbucks.” International Labor and Working-Class History 74: 193-211.

Sachs, C., Allen, P., Terman, a. R., Hayden, J., & Hatcher, C. (2013). Front and back of the house: socio-spatial inequalities in food work. Agriculture and Human Values. (15 pgs).

Week 7: Slow Food & Tensions of Alternative Food MovementsFebruary 17 th Brown, S., & Getz, C. (2008). Privatizing farm worker justice: Regulating labor through voluntary certification and labeling. Geoforum, 39(3), 1184–1196. doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2007.01.002

Alkon, A. H. (2013). The Socio-Nature of Local Organic Food. Antipode, 45(3), 663–680.

Recommended (Optional):DuPuis, E. M., & Goodman, D. (2005). Should we go “home” to eat?: toward a reflexive politics of localism. Journal of Rural Studies, 21(3), 359–371.

Jaffee, D. and Philip H. Howard.  2010. "Corporate Cooptation of Organic and Fair Trade Standards." Agriculture and Human Values. 27(4): 387-399.

February 19 th Visit to Kitchen CommonsFamiliarize yourself with Kitchen Commons: http://kitchencommons.net

Recommended (but optional): Jaffe, J., & Gertler, M. (2006). Victual Vicissitudes: Consumer Deskilling and the (Gendered) Transformation of Food Systems. Agriculture and Human Values, 23(2), 143–162.

Week 8: Food Labor Organizing February 24 th Martínez-Torres, M. E., & Rosset, P. M. (2010). La Vía Campesina: the birth and evolution of a transnational social movement. Journal of Peasant Studies, 37(1), 149–175.

Mize, R., & Swords, A. C. S. (2010). Consuming Mexican labor: from the Bracero Program to NAFTA. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Read Ch. 3 Farmworker Civil Rights Movement/El Movimiento Campesino, p. 47-61

February 26 th Food Labor Panel: Pineros y Campesinos Unidos del Noroeste (PCUN), IWW, Unite Here, and Adelante Mujeres

Browse a few of these websites to learn about these organizations and their work: Coalition of Immokalee Workers (http://ciw-online.org) and their YouTube

channel (https://www.youtube.com/user/CIWvideo) Adelante Mujeres: http://adelantemujeres.squarespace.com Pioneros Campesinos Unidos: http://www.pcun.org/   Student Farmworker Alliance: http://www.sfalliance.org Student Action with Farmworkers: http://saf-unite.org Real Food Real Jobs http://www.realfoodrealjobs.org Conflict Kitchen: http://conflictkitchen.org

DUE: Draft of paper/project for in-class peer review.

Week 9: Charity and Decommodified FeedingMarch 3 rd Visit from Emily Becker of the Oregon Food BankA History of Emergency Food in the US from WhyHunger’s National Hunger Clearinghouse: https://prezi.com/v-76nrp83de2/a-history-of-emergency-food-in-the-us/

Poppendieck, J. (1999). Introduction to Sweet charity?: Emergency food and the end of entitlement. Penguin Books, 1-19.

Heynen, N. (2009). Bending the Bars of Empire from Every Ghetto for Survival: The Black Panther Party’s Radical Antihunger Politics of Social Reproduction and Scale. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 99(2), 406–422.

Heynen, N. (2010). Cooking up Non-violent Civil-disobedient Direct Action for the Hungry: “Food Not Bombs” and the Resurgence of Radical Democracy in the US. Urban Studies, 47(6), 1225–1240.

More Cities Are Making It Illegal To Hand Out Food To The Homeless, Eliza Barclay, October 22, 2014, NPR: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/10/22/357846415/more-cities-are-making-it-illegal-to-hand-out-food-to-the-homeless

Florida Activists Arrested For Serving Food To Homeless, Eliza Barclay, November 6, 2014, NPR: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/11/06/362019133/florida-activists-arrested-for-serving-food-to-homeless?ft=3&f=1001&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pulsenews

Recommended (but optional):

Minkoff-Zern, L.-A. (2014). Subsidizing farmworker hunger: Food assistance programs and the social reproduction of California farm labor. Geoforum, 57, 91–98.

March 5 th Field Trip to Portland Mercado

Meet Three Latina Entrepreneurs Inspired by food, culture and tradition: http://www.opb.org/artsandlife/article/meet-three-latina-entrepreneurs-inspired-by-food-culture-tradition/#.VFkSP2ixAoQ.facebook

Week 10: Paper/Project PresentationsMarch 10 th & 12 th DUE: Final paper/project presentations due in class. More details to follow.

March 16 th : Final papers/projects due to D2L dropbox by 5pm.

Additional ResourcesStructural Racism in the Food System: http://sustainlex.org/StructuralRacismFoodresources.html

Gendered Divisions of LaborJaffe, J. and M. Gertler (2006). “Victual vicissitudes: Consumer deskilling and the (gendered) transformation of food systems.” Agriculture and Human Values 23: 143-162.

Deutsch, T. (2011). “Memories of mothers in the kitchen: local foods, history and women’s work.” Radical History Review 110: 167-177.

Cooking and Eating Under Siege: Gaza’s resourceful women prepare family meals of cultural defiance, July 24, 2014, Laila El-Haddad and Maggie Schmitt http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/7/gaza-food-war-women.html

A Woman's Work is Never Done: Eliza Bennett's 'flesh as canvas' embroidery http://boingboing.net/2014/07/21/a-womans-work-is-never-done.htmlhttp://www.elizabennett.co.uk/a-womans-work-is-never-done-text

Labor Along the Food ChainLabor and Health: Working Toward a Healthier Food Chain – Panel Discussion with Saru Jayaraman, Seth Holmes, and Chris Benner: http://food.berkeley.edu/laborandhealth/

Fair Food Project: Field to Table (3 parts): https://www.youtube.com/user/FairFoodProject

Food Chain Workers Alliance Food Chain Avengers – A Food Justice & Worker Justice Comic Book, Jerel

Dye and Luis DeLeon: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11868998/FCA_COLOR2.pdf

Video resources: http://foodchainworkers.org/?page_id=127 The Hands That Feed Us

o Part I : health and safety, lack of paid sick days o Part II : low wages and long hourso Part III : discriminationo Better TedX lecture by Joann Low –tells the story of her Taiwanese

immigrant family. Saru Jayaruman on ROC Gerardo Reyes-Chavez – Coalition of Immokalee Workers

We Are What We Eat National Geographic Series: Foraging in the Amazon Rainforest:

http://proof.nationalgeographic.com/2014/10/15/we-are-what-we-eat-foraging-in-the-amazon-rainforest/

Diving for Dinner With the Sea Gypsies: http://proof.nationalgeographic.com/2014/10/29/we-are-what-we-eat-diving-for-dinner-with-the-sea-gypsies/

Spring in Crete Means a Feast of Wild Greens: http://proof.nationalgeographic.com/2014/11/25/we-are-what-we-eat-spring-in-crete-means-a-feast-of-wild-greens/

In the Arctic, It’s All About Meat: http://proof.nationalgeographic.com/2014/09/30/we-are-what-we-eat-in-the-arctic-its-all-about-meat/

The High Altitude Diet of Afghanistan’s Nomads: http://proof.nationalgeographic.com/2014/09/18/we-are-what-we-eat-the-high-altitude-diet-of-afghanistans-nomads/

Documenting Dinners Around the World: http://proof.nationalgeographic.com/2014/09/04/we-are-what-we-eat-documenting-dinners-around-the-world/

Companies Paying Americans the Least (how many of these are food companies?): http://finance.yahoo.com/news/companies-paying-americans-least-152116554.html

Farmworker LaborProduct of Mexico Series about labor on Mexico’s mega-farms. Richard Marosi and Don Bartletti. December 7, 2014. LA Times.

Digital collections of migrant worker photographs: Dorothea Lange, dustbowl era: http://www.photistoric.com/historic-

photographs/portraits-of-the-migrant/ Irwin Nash, 1971: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/search/collection/nash

FarmworkersFlorida YouTube Channel with digital stories of migrant farmworkers: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCum0w2A4moayQm5MzAJ0pmg

Sowing the Seeds of Justice (multi-ethnic farmworker organizing): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NixUZkIU8Zw&feature=channel

Digital Story of Yolanda, migrant farmworker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hK4_KBxdqlo&feature=channel

Elvira a Farmworker – story about pesticide training and farmworker organizing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OGR4ODw3JI&feature=channel

Interview with Seth Holmes, author of Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: http://kplu.org/post/5-things-one-anthropologist-learned-while-working-migrant-berry-picker-wash

Sweet potatoes make a bitter harvest for farm workers. Ned Resnikoff. November 27, 2014. Al Jazeera America.

Harvest of Injustice: The Oppression of Migrant Workers on Canadian Farms. Adriana Paz. June 22, 2008. Global Research.

Protect those who protect our food. Jacob E. Gersen and Benjamin I. Sachs, November 12, 2014. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/13/opinion/protect-those-who-protect-our-food.html?_r=0

Don’t Let Your Children Grow Up to Be Farmers, Bren Smith, Aug. 9, 2014

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/10/opinion/sunday/dont-let-your-children-grow-up-to-be-farmers.html?ref=international&_r=2

Mutabaruka, reggae artist. h2 Worka: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayrk5uH- Cac

Foodservice LaborNearly 1 in 3 Restaurant Workers Suffers From Food Insecurity, Michelle Chen, July 30, 2014, The Nation. http://www.thenation.com/blog/180822/nearly-one-three-restaurant-workers-suffers-food-insecurity#

A Burger Joint Pays $15 An Hour. And, Yes, It’s Making Money. Allison Aubrey, December 4, 2014. http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/12/04/368442087/a-burger-joint-pays-15-an-hour-and-yes-its-making-money?ft=3&f=1001

Watch the Behind the Kitchen Door trailers. http://thewelcometable.net/behind-the-kitchen-door/

Want to Find a Restaurant That Treats Workers Well? There’s An App for That, David Schultz, December 10, 2012, NPR: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/12/10/166671273/want-to-find-a-restaurant-that-treats-workers-well-theres-an-app-for-that

The National Restaurant Association: Hard to Stomach (from ROC United): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hr_crQuzWL4&feature=youtu.be

Chipotle’s The Scarecrow Commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUtnas5ScSE

When the Guy Making Your Sandwich Has a Noncompete Cause: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/15/upshot/when-the-guy-making-your-sandwich-has-a-noncompete-clause.html?abt=0002&abg=0

Charity and Decommodified FeedingA History of Emergency Food in the US from WhyHunger’s National Hunger Clearinghouse: https://prezi.com/v-76nrp83de2/a-history-of-emergency-food-in-the-us/

“Las Patronas”: Meet the women helping child migrants as they make their way to the U.S.http://www.salon.com/2014/07/17/las_patronas_meet_the_women_helping_child_migrants_as_they_make_their_way_to_the_u_s_partner/

Shillington, L. J. (2013). Right to food, right to the city: Household urban agriculture, and socionatural metabolism in Managua, Nicaragua. Geoforum, 44, 103–111.

Sbicca, J. (2013). The Need to Feed: Urban Metabolic Struggles of Actually Existing Radical Projects. Critical Sociology, 1–18.

MiscellaneousColorado’s prison inmates go from hard time to soft cheese: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/colorado-puts-prison-inmates-to-work-on-farms/

8 Artisinal Foods You Didn’t Know Were Made By Prisoners: http://www.buzzfeed.com/katiejmbaker/artisanal-products-you-didnt-know-were-made-by-prisoners#.jqYrrP7nK

Voices/Voces from the Warehouse, a video series produced by Warehouse Workers United that features stories of workers in Walmart warehouses in Southern California: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPRKkcrJqeo&feature=plcp

Hunger & Food Security: Do we really need industrial agriculture to feed the world? Anna Lappe & Food MythBusters: http://foodmyths.org/myths/hunger-food-security/

Can the Foodie Trend Also Help Food Workers? (The Nation) http://m.thenation.com/blog/187553-can-foodie-trend-also-help-food-workers

Using Jailed Migrants as a Pool of Cheap Labor (NY Times): http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/25/us/using-jailed-migrants-as-a-pool-of-cheap-labor.html?_r=1

UPS students get hands dirty as part of new Northwest college consortium. Shelby Rowe. August 10, 2014. http://www.thenewstribune.com/2014/08/10/3322902/ups-students-get-hands-dirty-as.html

DocumentariesHarvest of Shame Documentary 1960 and NPR radio story on it from 2014. And a Modern Day Harvest of Shame from ProPublica.

PBS documentary The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers’ Struggle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgMkX4eE3bs

Out of the Muck Film Trailer about African American farmworker pesticide exposure in South Apopka: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wdvzw1sO68A

A Place at the Table: http://www.takepart.com/place-at-the-table/film

Fast Food Nation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_Food_Nation

Harvest of Empire: http://harvestofempiremovie.com (in PSU library)

Books for Review (or choose your own, but check with me first)

Abarca, M. E. (2006). Voices in the Kitchen: Views of Food and the World from Working-Class Mexican and Mexican American Women. Texas A&M University Press.

Alkon, A. H., & Agyeman, J. (2011). Cultivating Food Justice - Race, Class, and Sustainability. (A. H. Alkon & J. Agyeman, Eds.). Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Alkon, A. H. (2012). Black, white, and green: farmers markets, race, and the green economy (Vol. 13). University of Georgia Press.

Barndt, D. (2007). Tangled routes: Women, work, and globalization on the tomato trail. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

Beriss, D., & Sutton, D. (2007). The restaurants book: Ethnographies of where we eat. Berg.Cohen, D. (2011). Braceros: Migrant citizens and transnational subjects in the postwar United States and Mexico. Univ of North Carolina Press.

Carlisle, L. (2015). Lentil Underground: Renegade Farmers and the Future of Food in America. Penguin.

Cohen, D. (2011). Braceros: Migrant citizens and transnational subjects in the postwar United States and Mexico. Univ of North Carolina Press.

DeVault, M. L. (1994). Feeding the family: The social organization of caring as gendered work. University of Chicago Press.

Estabrook, B. (2012). Tomatoland: How modern industrial agriculture destroyed our most alluring fruit. Andrews McMeel Publishing.

Freidberg, S. (2009). Fresh: a perishable history. Harvard University Press.

Gomberg-Muñoz, R. (2011). Labor and legality: an ethnography of a Mexican immigrant network. New York: Oxford University Press.

Gottlieb, R., & Joshi, A. (2010). Food Justice. Mit Press.

Gray, M. (2013). Labor and the Locavore: The Making of a Comprehensive Food Ethic. Univ of California Press.

Griffith, D. (2006). American guestworkers: Jamaicans and Mexicans in the U.S. labor market. University Park Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press.

Holmes, S. (2013). Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant farmworkers in the United States (Vol. 27). Univ of California Press.

Hovorka, A., de Zeeuw, H., & Njenga, M. (2009). Women Feeding Cities: Mainstreaming gender in urban agriculture and food security. Practical Action Pub.

Jaffee, D. (2007). Brewing justice: fair trade coffee, sustainability, and survival. Berkeley: University of California Press.

McMillan, T. (2012). The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee’s, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table. Simon and Schuster.

Mitchell, D. (1996). The lie of the land: migrant workers and the California landscape. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Mize, R., & Swords, A. C. S. (2010). Consuming Mexican labor: from the Bracero Program to NAFTA. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Rothenberg, D. (2000). With these hands: The hidden world of migrant farmworkers today. Univ of California Press.

Sachs, C. (1996). Gendered fields: rural women, agriculture, and environment. Westview Press, Inc.

Schwartzman, K. C. (2013). The chicken trail: Following workers, migrants, and corporations across the Americas. Ithaca: ILR Press.

Sinclair, U. (1906). The Jungle. New York: Signet Classic.

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