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Gabriel Thompson

    This author delves deeply into themes of immigration, labor, and organizing through their journalistic and writing work. Their articles and books explore lesser-known but influential figures and movements that have shaped American society. Focusing on the untold stories of community organizers, their writing brings to light the foundational forces of social change. Their work uncovers the complexities of social struggles and the power of collective action.

    Chasing the Harvest
    • 2017

      Chasing the Harvest

      • 320 pages
      • 12 hours of reading
      4.5(67)Add rating

      The voices are defiant and nuanced, aware of the human complexities that spill across bureaucratic categories and arbitrary borders. -Siddhartha Deb, The Baffler A deeply moving tribute to the lives of the California farm workers, and their journey from Mexican villages into the cruel machinery of American agribusiness. -Hector Tobar, author of Deep Down Dark Cumulatively, these portraits form a nuanced mosaic of life in the fields-the good, the bad, the mundane, the tragic and the heroic. -Miriam Pawel, author of The Crusades of Cesar Chavez Not just an intimate, but an insider, look at the lives of California's farmworkers. -Elaine Elinson, San Francisco Chronicle

      Chasing the Harvest