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Dignity or Exploitation? What Future for Farmworker Families in the US ft. David Bacon
Dignity or Exploitation? What Future for Farmworker Families in the US ft. David Bacon
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Length:
40 minutes
Released:
Feb 22, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Oakland Institute Senior Fellow, journalist and photographer David Bacon discusses the history of exploitation of the H-2A worker program and how it creates a race to the bottom for all farmworkers.
Will the Biden administration protect the profits of growers and expand the H-2A program or will it stand with farmworkers who labor in the fields to keep our country fed?
Report: https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/biden-administration-end-slavery-conditions-h2a-guest-worker-program
Will the Biden administration protect the profits of growers and expand the H-2A program or will it stand with farmworkers who labor in the fields to keep our country fed?
Report: https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/biden-administration-end-slavery-conditions-h2a-guest-worker-program
Released:
Feb 22, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
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