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Migrant
- 1970 ----- color ----- 52 min ----- 16mm
- The plight of the migrant farmworker was ignored before Edward R. Murrow's documentary, Harvest of Shame. Today the situation is not much better. These 2.5 million people, sometimes called rented slaves, are still not covered by unemployment insurance of the minimum wage law. They earn less in terms of real money than they did ten years ago--an average of only $891 per year. Children of migrants miss school because they are needed in the fields to augment the family income. No child labor laws prevent them from working as soon as they are capable. Migrants are still the unwilling victims of the cost and profit squeeze between the consumer and the producer.
- Topics: (American Ethnic Studies: Latino/Chicano, Discrimination, United States)
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