Golden Cage: A Story of California's Farmworkers

• 1989 ----- color ----- 29 min ----- vhs
• The plight of migrant farmworkers has not changed much since the Depression. Only their nationality is different. Chronicles the experiences of Mexican farmworkers in California, and their isolation in a land of plenty. Using historical footage, interviews, newspaper clipping and black-and-white stills, the documentary traces the history of the United Farmworkers Union from the sixties to its current decline. Show the tactics used by many agricultural companies to evade using union labor. Farmworkers, growers, migrant doctors and others talk candidly about the substandard working and living conditions that accompany the harvest. (In English and Spanish with English subtitles)
• Topics: (American Ethnic Studies: Latino/Chicano, History: American, Sociology)