On the other side
Each summer, Jamaican migrant farm workers flood the sleepy towns of rural Massachusetts, arriving to work the tobacco harvest--the staple crop of the region and the last to rely solely on manual labor. Traveling 3,000 miles, they spend up to eight months out of each year working amongst the vast se...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Watertown, Mass.
Documentary Educational Resources
2007, 2007
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| Series: | Ethnographic video online, volume 1
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| Collection: | Ethnographic Video Online Vol. 1 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | Each summer, Jamaican migrant farm workers flood the sleepy towns of rural Massachusetts, arriving to work the tobacco harvest--the staple crop of the region and the last to rely solely on manual labor. Traveling 3,000 miles, they spend up to eight months out of each year working amongst the vast sea of tobacco plants and suspended high above the rafters of the sheds where the plants are hung to dry |
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| Item Description: | Previously released on DVD.. - Title from resource description page (viewed Dec. 23, 2010). - Recorded in Massachusetts |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (51 min.) |