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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Italiano
Description
An anarchically outrageous comedy from Lina Wertmüller, All screwed up is ripe for rediscovery, an accomplishment as impressive as the classics she made before and after: Love and anarchy (1973) and Swept away (1974). It tells the story of Gigi (Luigi Diberti) and Carletto (Nino Bignamini), two Southern country boys who travel north to get work in Milan. Arriving with nothing but the clothes on their backs, they join the labor movement and live in...
Author
Publisher
Coach House Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Living Things follows four recent graduates -- Munir, G, Ernesto, and ℓlex -- who travel from Madrid to the south of France to work the grape harvest. Except things don't go as planned: they end up working on an industrial chicken farm and living in a campground, where a general sense of menace takes hold. What follows is a compelling and incisive examination of precarious employment, capitalism, immigration, and the mass production of living things,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the dead body of a young woman is found on the grounds of Belle Vie, the estate's manager, Caren Gray, launches her own investigation into Belle Vie's history, which leads her to a centuries old mystery involving the plantation's slave quarters--and her own past.
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
When Papa Rabbit does not return home as expected from many seasons of working in the great carrot and lettuce fields of El Norte, his son Pancho sets out on a dangerous trek to find him, guided by a coyote. Includes author's note.
10) Intimidad
Author
Publisher
Carnivalesque Films
Pub. Date
2009
Language
Español
Description
Follows a Mexican couple as they leave their daughter with relatives to go and find work, and the examines the problems that they face when they reunite.
11) Migrant
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A Mexican boy tells of his journey to the U.S. with his family. They must face many dangers to cross the border, only to experience the uncertainty felt by all illegal immigrants.
12) A patchwork past
Author
Series
Plain patterns volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Few are pleased Sophie Deiner has returned to her Amish community, but a sudden illness leaves her no choice. She befriends a group of migrant workers but is appalled by their living conditions. She soon finds her advocacy for change opposed by her ex, the farm foreman, and that her efforts only makes things worse. Has she chosen a fight she can't win?"--
13) Migrant
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Anna, the daughter of migrant farm workers, feels like different animals as she follows her family as they travel looking for work.
Author
Publisher
Arte Público Press
Language
Español
Description
"I tell you, God could care less about the poor. Tell me, why must we live here like this? What have we done to deserve this? You're so good and yet you suffer so much," a young boy tells his mother in Tomás Rivera's classic novel about the migrant worker experience. Outside the chicken coop that is their home, his father wails in pain from the unbearable cramps brought on by sunstroke after working in the hot fields. The young boy can't understand...
20) Mary Coin
Author
Publisher
Blue Rider Press, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
[2013], ©2013
Language
English
Description
Imagines the lives of the subject of the photograph, photographer, and a college professor who finds a connection to a family legacy in the image of the iconic "Migrant Mother."
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