Por:
Maurice Jourdane
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Fecha:
2005
"One of Maurice "Mo" Jourdane's greatest contributions to the advancement of farm workers in the fields of California was his relentless - and ultimately successful - effort to end agricultural employers' required use of the short-handled hoe by laborers in the state's lucrative lettuce, celery, sugar beet, and strawberry industries. The short hoe, known by Hispanic farm workers as el cortito (the short one), was the cause of severe and permanent crippling hundreds of thousands of field laborers. It required workers to spend as many as ten to twelve hours each day, often in more than 90 degree...