California Cuts Back on Safety Enforcement as Farmworkers Toil in Extreme Heat – Capital & Main
“As California regulators struggle with short staffing, farmworkers say they are denied shade and water required by law.”
“The Strikers of Coachella”: How California Farmworkers Built a Grassroots Movement – Power at Work
“In The Strikers of Coachella Christian Paiz – himself the child of two Coachella Valley laborers – examines the epic struggle waged by impoverished farmworkers in the 1960s through the 1980s to improve conditions and find their own voice. The upstart United Farm Workers (UFW) union is well documented in numerous books, along with its leaders, the late Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta. This book’s strength is its emphasis on the workers, rather than the union’s leadership. Paiz grew up in this world and after obtaining a college education, returned to the Valley to teach high school, wisely recording oral histories with the community’s elders and his contemporaries.”