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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 916
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Education for Victory
Author: Research in Education
Author: Migrant Citizenship
Author: Verónica Martínez-MatsudaPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812252292
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
An examination of the Farm Security Administration's migrant camp system and the people it served Today's concern for the quality of the produce on our plates has done little to guarantee U.S. farmworkers the necessary protections of sanitary housing, medical attention, and fair labor standards. The political discourse on farmworkers' rights is dominated by the view that migrant workers are not entitled to better protections because they are "noncitizens," as either immigrants or transients. Between 1935 and 1946, however, the Farm Security Administration (FSA) intervened dramatically on behalf of migrant families to expand the principles of American democracy, advance migrants' civil rights, and make farmworkers visible beyond their economic role as temporary laborers. In more than one hundred labor camps across the country, migrant families successfully worked with FSA officials to challenge their exclusion from the basic rights afforded by the New Deal. In Migrant Citizenship, Verónica Martínez-Matsuda examines the history of the FSA's Migratory Labor Camp Program and its role in the lives of diverse farmworker families across the United States, describing how the camps provided migrants sanitary housing, full on-site medical service, a nursery school program, primary education, home-demonstration instruction, food for a healthy diet, recreational programing, and lessons in participatory democracy through self-governing councils. In these ways, she argues, the camps functioned as more than just labor centers aimed at improving agribusiness efficiency. Instead, they represented a profound "experiment in democracy" seeking to secure migrant farmworkers' full political and social participation in the United States. In recounting this chapter in the FSA's history, Migrant Citizenship provides insights into public policy concerning migrant workers, federal intervention in poor people's lives, and workers' cross-racial movements for social justice and offers a precedent for those seeking to combat the precarity in farm labor relations today.
School Life
Author: Recent Developments in Burma
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on East Asia and the PacificPublisher:
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Education and the Culture of Print in Modern America
Author: Adam R. NelsonPublisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 0299236137
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Vividly revealing the multiple layers on which print has been produced, consumed, regulated, and contested for the purpose of education since the mid-nineteenth century, the historical case studies in Education and the Culture of Print in Modern America deploy a view of education that extends far beyond the confines of traditional classrooms. The nine essays examine “how print educates” in settings as diverse as depression-era work camps, religious training, and broadcast television—all the while revealing the enduring tensions that exist among the controlling interests of print producers and consumers. This volume exposes what counts as education in American society and the many contexts in which education and print intersect. Offering perspectives from print culture history, library and information studies, literary studies, labor history, gender history, the history of race and ethnicity, the history of science and technology, religious studies, and the history of childhood and adolescence, Education and the Culture of Print in Modern America pioneers an investigation into the intersection of education and print culture.
Conservation in Camping
Author: United States. Soil Conservation ServicePublisher:
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Category : Camping
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Steps to 4-H Camping
Author: John LennoxPublisher:
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Category : 4-H clubs
Languages : en
Pages : 60
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Education for Victory
Author: Olga Anna JonesPublisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 750
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