Labor/Employment
May 18, 2006
Nation's First Guest Workers Sow Stories Into U.S. History
LOS ANGELES - For most of his life Guadalupe Acevedo kept to himself the memories of the time spent wielding a short-handled hoe, doing back-breaking stoop labor in California fields.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
LOS ANGELES - For most of his life Guadalupe Acevedo kept to himself the memories of the time spent wielding a short-handled hoe, doing back-breaking stoop labor in California fields.
But he never forgot the six long years picking tomatoes, cauliflower and lettuce, the pitifully stingy rations of bad food, and the gnawin...
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