Food and Farm Labor

Mexican farmworkers (known as 'chileros') harvesting New Mexico's famed green chile. (Photo credit: Joseph Sorrentino / iStock)

A New American Dream: The Rise of Immigrants in Rural America

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03.22.19
Agriculture workers pick strawberries from a produce farm in Camarillo, Calif.

Farmworkers Are on the Frontlines of Climate Change. Can New Laws Protect Them?

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02.27.19
Hundreds gather in San Francisco with the youth led Sunrise Movement to call on House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi to support the formation of a Select Committee to advance a Green New Deal to address Climate Change. (Photo CC-licensed by Peg Hunter)

A Green New Deal Must Include Food and Farming

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01.30.19
Campesinos Working in Tlalquiltenango, Morelos, Mexico. (Photo credit: Joseph Sorrentino / iStock)

Why Food Insecurity Is a Global Farmworker Issue

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12.21.18
tractors driving across a large consolidated farm field

For a New Generation of Farmers, Accessing Land is the First Step Toward Tackling Consolidation

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11.20.18
A Black family standing outside their home. Photo © Ernest Lowe

Black Migrants: Photographs of California’s Forgotten Agricultural Past

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11.15.18
A farmworker couple, Nelson and Silvia* from Guatemala, surveys the flooding outside of their North Carolina trailer home after Hurricane Florence. (Photo by Justin Cook.)

Months After Hurricane Florence, Undocumented Farmworkers Still Struggle to Recover

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11.13.18
A chicken processing plant worker on the line. (Photo credit: Earl Dotter for the Northwest Arkansas Workers' Justice Center.)

Workers Fear Injury as Administration Clears Way for Faster Chicken Slaughter

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11.07.18
A portrait of the Working Parents team from the WIHU Spring. Included in the group are: Back row, from left: Susan Spikes, Suzanne Barr, Matt McFarlane; Kate Galassi: seated in green sweater, holding the baby. (Photo credit: Bridget Shevlin)

Women are Uniting to Fight Sexual Harassment in the Restaurant Industry

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10.29.18
Lechugueros often begin their days at one or two in the morning, crossing the border at San Luis Río Colorado and heading into the fields. Photo © Scott Baxter.

Life as a Farmworker in Yuma’s Lettuce Fields

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09.03.18
Dishwashers Esteban Soc, left, and Joselino Aguilar, right, at work in the kitchen of Mexican restaurant Caracol in Houston, Texas on July 12, 2017.

Are Eaters the Key to Better Restaurant Wages and Working Conditions?

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08.14.18
inspiring women in the food system collage

The Inspiring Women Reshaping the Food System

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08.06.18
Jose throws boxes into the row, working ahead of the packers.

Photo Essay: The Humble Cabbage Connects History and Cultures

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06.28.18
Seafood processing in Indonesia. (Photo credit: Adrian Mulya/The Sustainable Seafood Alliance Indonesia)

There’s Tremendous Human Suffering Behind Our Food. It’s Time to End It.

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06.20.18
Rosa Hernandez prepares chicken for mole, while Sylvia Rojas makes tortillas -- about 70 a day. (Photo credit: Lisa Morehouse)

Immigrant Women are Providing a Taste of Oaxaca in California’s Central Valley

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06.15.18
Illustration by Justin Tran.

Want Better Working Conditions in Restaurants? Build a Co-op

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05.25.18

Meet the Farmworkers Leading the #MeToo Fight For Workers Everywhere

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05.21.18
jillian hishaw in the farm field

Jillian Hishaw Wants to Help Black Farmers Stay on Their Land

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05.04.18