Series: Pastures of Plenty: A History of California Farm Workers

Produced by Rachel Anne Goodman

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A four-part series on farm labor and immigration.

Pastures of Plenty is a four-part radio series exploring the lives of farm workers in California from Statehood to the present. California is the top-producing agricultural state in the U.S., and as such, relies heavily on manual labor to feed the nation and the world. But who are those people bent over the rows? We usually see them from a distance. This series brings them up close. Through oral histories of workers and their descendants, historians, and archival audio, we hear about how lives were built, and some times broken, in the fields of California.


Additional Files

4 pieces

Order by: Default | Newest First | Oldest First
Pastures of Plenty: The Future of Farm Labor
From Rachel Anne Goodman
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Program 4 in a four-part series about farmworker history

Bought by WCBU, KSJD, KUSP, KUOW, KAZU and more


  • Added: Mar 06, 2007
  • Length: 00:53:59
  • Licenses: 12
Pastures of Plenty: Destination El Norte: Braceros and Campesinos
From Rachel Anne Goodman
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Program 3 in a four-part series on farmworker history

Bought by KUSP, WCBU, KVMR, KSJD, KUOW and more


  • Added: Feb 28, 2007
  • Length: 00:53:58
  • Licenses: 13
Pastures of Plenty: Hard Times in the Country: The Depression Years
From Rachel Anne Goodman
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Program 2 in a four-part series on farmworker history.

Bought by KUSP, WCBU, KUOW, KAZU, KFSR and more


  • Added: Feb 27, 2007
  • Length: 00:53:59
  • Licenses: 11
Pastures of Plenty: Sailing East: Chinese, Japanese and Filipinos in the Fields
From Rachel Anne Goodman
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Program 1 in a four part series about farmworker history.

Bought by KUSP, WCBU, KUOW, KAZU, KFSR and more


  • Added: Feb 27, 2007
  • Length: 00:53:55
  • Licenses: 10