On the other side / by Aoife Nugent, et. al.

Each summer, Jamaican migrant farm workers flood the sleepy towns of rural Massachusetts, arriving to work the tobacco harvest--the staple crop of the region and the last to rely solely on manual labor. Traveling 3,000 miles, they spend up to eight months out of each year working amongst the vast se...

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Other Authors: Nugent, Aoife, Ito, Nozomi, Shinohara, Allan, Scheehle, Peter
Format: Video
Language:English
Published: Watertown, Mass. : Documentary Educational Resources, 2007.
Series:Ethnographic video online.
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Summary:Each summer, Jamaican migrant farm workers flood the sleepy towns of rural Massachusetts, arriving to work the tobacco harvest--the staple crop of the region and the last to rely solely on manual labor. Traveling 3,000 miles, they spend up to eight months out of each year working amongst the vast sea of tobacco plants and suspended high above the rafters of the sheds where the plants are hung to dry.
Physical Description:1 online resource (51 min.)
Production Credits:Directors, Peter Scheehle & Allan Shinohara ; producers, Nozomi Ito & Aoife Nugent.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:Recorded in Mass.
Accessibility Note:Closed captioning in English