Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Sowing Seeds for Change Symposium Address, Gainesville, Florida, by Lucas Benitez, farmworker and organizer -- Introduction by Charles D. Thompson, Jr. -- Organization of This Book -- The Virgin of Guadalupe, by Carmen Tomás, farmworker from Cherán, Michoacán, Mexico, Interview by Wendy Daniels Ibarra, 1999 SAF intern -- Chapter 1: Making Home: Culture, Ethnicity, and Religion among Farmworkers in the Southeastern United States, by Alejandra Okie Holt and Sister Evelyn Mattern -- Sowing Seeds for Change Symposium Address, Gainesville, Florida, by Lucas Benitez, farmworker and organizer -- Chapter 2: Layers of Loss: Migrants, Small Farmers, and Agribusiness, by Charles D. Thompson, Jr. -- Life on Easy Street, by Rachel LaCour Niesen, 1999 SAF intern -- Chapter 3: Standing Idly By: ''Organized'' Farmworkers in South Florida during the Depression and World War II, by Cindy Hahamovitch -- Rifaré mi suerte/ I'll Raffle My Luck by Humberto Zapata Alvizo, farmworker and musician, Interview by Joe Bagby, 1999 SAF intern -- Chapter 4: H-2A Guestworker Program: A Legacy of Importing Agricultural Labor, by Garry G. Geffert -- Testimony at Hearing before the Commission on Agricultural Workers, by Roman Rodriguez, Florida farmworker -- Chapter 5: Farmworker Exceptionalism under the Law:How the Legal System Contributes to Farmworker Poverty and Powerlessness, by Greg Schell -- Wells Farms, by Rachel Avery, 1997 SAF intern -- The Conditions at the Camp Are Not Great, by Vanessa, farmworker and daughter of crew leader, Interview by Kris Adams, 1997 SAF intern -- Chapter 6: Bitter Harvest: Housing Conditions of Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers, by Christopher Holden -- The History We Wrote This Summer, by Jenny Carroll -- Chapter 7: The Struggle for Health in Times of Plenty, by Colin Austin.

That Summer, by Marcella Hurtado Gomez, farmworker and 1997 SAF intern -- Bella Juventud/ Wonderful Youth, by Gloria Velásquez -- Chapter 8: Understanding the Challenges and Potential of Migrant Students, by Ramiro Arceo, Joy Kusserow, and Al Wright -- I Don't Think People Give Up, by Sheila Payne, farmworker organizer, Interview by Melinda Steele, 1998 SAF intern -- Chapter 9: From Slavery to Cesar Chavez and Beyond: Farmworker Organizing in the United States, by Paul Ortiz -- Sowing Seeds for Change Symposium Address, Gainesville, Florida, by Lucas Benitez, farmworker and organizer -- Conclusion: An Invocation to Act, by Melinda F. Wiggins -- Appendix I: Developing a Syllabus on Farmworker Advocacy -- Appendix II: Farmworker-Related Organizations and Agencies -- Appendix III: Recommended Readings -- Works Cited -- Contributors -- Index.