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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Exploitative wages and living conditions are the norm for migrant farmworkers, but the book does search for solutions...[Bacon's] book aims not merely to show but to tell."
-- Agatha French * Los Angeles Times *
“Avoiding both sensationalism and sentimentality, the photos reveal not only the workers’ desperate poverty, but also the dignity of their toil and their consuming effort to provide a better life for their children.” * San Francisco Chronicle *
"Filled with poignant photographs, accessible stories, and first-person immigrant narratives. Every middle and high school library should have this fine book." * Rethinking Schools *
"In his new book,
In the Fields of the North/En los Campos del Norte, David Bacon captures the experiences of migrant workers in California through heart-wrenching photographs." * East Bay Express *
“Remarkable.” * Labor Notes *
"In this timely and essential book, photojournalist David Bacon, through images and text, brings to life our intimate connection with the immigrant workers responsible for what we eat." * Rethinking Schools *
"Through his clear, concise writing, his informed captions, and his powerful photographs, David Bacon witnesses
lives, not working human machines." * Afterimage *
"Belongs on the shelf with the classics about farm workers." * Journal of American Ethnic History *
