February 9th Talk in honor of Women’s History Month

In honor of women’s history month

Professor Lori Flores, SUNY Stony Brook,

http://history.sunysb.edu/blog/loriflores/ will discuss

“The History of Women in the U.S. Farmworker Justice Movement”

1:50-3:15, Monday, February 9th, DAC 306

For much of the twentieth century and still today, the farmworker rights

movement has struggled to improve the lives and working conditions of

those who harvest our food. Though agriculture is often imagined as a

world dominated by men, women have played a powerful role in building,

sustaining, and directing the future of the farmworker rights struggle in

the United States. Spanning the period between the 1930s and today, this

lecture focuses on women’s involvement in important moments of labor

unionization, boycotting and community protest, immigration, and

legislation connected to the hotly-debated issue of how we should treat

the farmworkers who labor within our borders.