Frontmatter -- Editors’ Foreword -- Preface -- Contents -- I. Seasonal Farm Laborers -- 2. Fruit and Vegetable Workers -- 3. The Economics of Fruit and Vegetable Labor -- 4. Workers in Sugar Beets -- 5. Seasonal Farm Labor in the Postwar Era -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Bibliography -- Index

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