Migrant Farmworkers' Story: La Causa - Steck-Vaughn Stories of America Series | Historical Nonfiction for Classroom & Book Club Discussions

Do you or does your child know where your food comes from? No, I do not mean in plastic wrapping in pristine supermarkets. This book tells the ever-important story of those people who do backbreaking labor, hour after hour, day after day, for basic wages (and sometimes not even that), with few benefits most of us take for granted. Although the book tells of the founding of the United Farm Workers Union, the issues of social justice facing migrant farmworkers remain as current as they did a century ago. This is a book every school child and parent should read. This book tells of the conditions that led Cesar Chaves and his wife, Delores Huerta, to organize and found the United Farm Workers in the face of considerable personal danger and against strong odds. An epilogue and afterword tells of the contribution of Chavez and the union, along with the challenges these largely invisible people face today.