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Each summer, Jamaican migrant farm workers flood the sleepy towns of rural Massachusetts, arriving to work the tobacco harvest--the staple crop of the region and the last to rely solely on manual labor. Traveling 3,000 miles, they spend up to eight months out of each year working amongst the vast se...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Nugent, Aoife, Ito, Nozomi, Shinohara, Allan, Scheehle, Peter
Format: Video
Language:English
Published: Watertown, Mass. : Documentary Educational Resources, 2007.
Series:Ethnographic video online.
Subjects:
Migrant agricultural laborers > Massachusetts.
Travailleurs agricoles migrants > Massachusetts.
Migrant agricultural laborers
Massachusetts
Documentary.
Encoded moving images.
documentary film.
Documentary films
Ethnographic films
Nonfiction films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Documentary films.
Nonfiction films.
Ethnographic films.
Documentaires.
Films autres que de fiction.
Films ethnographiques.
Vidéos pour personnes handicapées auditives.
Online Access:Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press)
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Summary:Each summer, Jamaican migrant farm workers flood the sleepy towns of rural Massachusetts, arriving to work the tobacco harvest--the staple crop of the region and the last to rely solely on manual labor. Traveling 3,000 miles, they spend up to eight months out of each year working amongst the vast sea of tobacco plants and suspended high above the rafters of the sheds where the plants are hung to dry.
Physical Description:1 online resource (51 min.)
Production Credits:Directors, Peter Scheehle & Allan Shinohara ; producers, Nozomi Ito & Aoife Nugent.