Two Reviews: In the Fields of the North / En los campos del norte

Two new reviews of David Bacon’s latest book have come out recently. Both are available at Bacon’s blog, The Reality Check:

https://davidbaconrealitycheck.blogspot.com/2017/08/two-reviews-in-fields-of-north-en-los.html

Review: In the Fields of the North (En los campos del norte)

By Eve Ottenberg, Labor Notes

August 8, 2017

David Bacon's unforgettable new English-Spanish photo-essay, In the Fields of the North (En los campos del norte), is about migrant farm workers on the West Coast. Bacon says that without unions, the state of affairs in the fruit and vegetable fields would be even sorrier.[…]

Read the full review:

http://labornotes.org/blogs/2017/08/review-fields-north-en-los-campos-del-norte

Chasing the Harvest' and 'In the Fields of the North'

By Elaine Elinson, SF Gate

July 19, 2017

In 1946, Carlos Bulosan documented the gritty lives of Filipino migrant workers in California in his autobiographical novel "America Is in the Heart."

Since that time, there have been a wealth of books about California farmworkers, from Steinbeck's iconic "Grapes of Wrath" to Peter Matthiesen's "Sal Si Puedes," published at the height of the Delano grape strike, to Matthew Garcia's recent "From the Jaws of Victory," with revelations from an excavation of United Farm Workers archives.[…]

Read the full review:

http://www.sfgate.com/books/article/Chasing-the-Harvest-and-In-the-Fields-of-11298697.php