The second industrial revolution has not only produced the means to increase the disparity of productivity between manual agriculture and the most successful motorized agriculture by fifty time, it also has provided the means to put them in actual competition with one another. Page 451
Mazoyer make a good point here. The creation of roads, and rails that travel for region to region and even to remote areas are, as economist will say, a creative destruction. This revolution around the world has damage small family farms. If farm aren’t doing a great enough cover they are paying more for transportation than they are receiving in revenue. As transportation is more prominent in what we received, everything became not so local. In 1869 the first railroad was created coming for the east to the west coast in six days, now in 2010 I can get grapes for Chile in 1 day. This meant that instead of supporting my local famer, I can go to the grocery store and purchase everything under the sun
EL: Good point. The transportation revolution is a key component of the greater revolution that has resulted in global competition and ever-dropping food prices. This can crush locally focused food producers. But it would be short-sighted to view this as strictly an ethical question; is a question of personal finances as well. In a world where trade is global, so are workers and the jobs they seek--wages drop accordingly, just like grain prices.
Cesar Chavez played such an important role in providing immigrant farm worker with better working conditions because he himself had been through the experiences faced by these worker first hand. He knew what to look for when he was looking for farms that were mistreating workers. He played a huge role in founding the National Farm Workers association that became The United Farm Workers. The United farm workers fought for higher wages for the workers in the field because the amount of work being put in by these workers was not matching their pay, especially in grape fields. It makes sense for the request of a higher wage because seeing that the harvesting on grapes is done mainly by hand, and by these workers being stiffed by the farmers. "The grower kept saying, "I can't pay. I just haven't got the money." I guess he must have found the money somewhere, because we were asking $1.40 and we got it."(The Organizers Tale). This example shows the power the farm workers had due to Chavez standing up for what he believes in and fighting for better lives for his former collegues and future migrant workers that are faced with a tough life.
Cesar Chavez: “The Organizer’s Tale” “I found that if you work hard enough, you can usually shake people into working too, those who are concerned. You work harder and they work harder still, up to a point and then they pass you.” (Cesar Chavez) I find it amazing that someone can have the determination to fight for something they believe in so hard. He started out organizing small groups and it grew to mass numbers of supporters. Chavez was so determined that he went without pay for an entire year so he could keep organizing for CSO and when he felt they were veering away from what they had originally started he resigned from being general director. He resigned because the most of the CSO leaders opposed a program to organize farm workers into a union. He immediately went to Delano and started organizing another valley. He is constantly showing that he won’t give up in what he believes in and that he won’t stop until he feels he has made a difference. He continued to start strikes with farm workers demanding fair wages and they got what they fought for. Chavez loved his line of work by bringing social justice to farm workers. Sigrid K.
The second industrial revolution has not only produced the means to increase the disparity of productivity between manual agriculture and the most successful motorized agriculture by fifty time, it also has provided the means to put them in actual competition with one another. Page 451
ReplyDeleteMazoyer make a good point here. The creation of roads, and rails that travel for region to region and even to remote areas are, as economist will say, a creative destruction. This revolution around the world has damage small family farms. If farm aren’t doing a great enough cover they are paying more for transportation than they are receiving in revenue. As transportation is more prominent in what we received, everything became not so local. In 1869 the first railroad was created coming for the east to the west coast in six days, now in 2010 I can get grapes for Chile in 1 day. This meant that instead of supporting my local famer, I can go to the grocery store and purchase everything under the sun
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EL: Good point. The transportation revolution is a key component of the greater revolution that has resulted in global competition and ever-dropping food prices. This can crush locally focused food producers. But it would be short-sighted to view this as strictly an ethical question; is a question of personal finances as well. In a world where trade is global, so are workers and the jobs they seek--wages drop accordingly, just like grain prices.
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Cesar Chavez played such an important role in providing immigrant farm worker with better working conditions because he himself had been through the experiences faced by these worker first hand. He knew what to look for when he was looking for farms that were mistreating workers. He played a huge role in founding the National Farm Workers association that became The United Farm Workers.
ReplyDeleteThe United farm workers fought for higher wages for the workers in the field because the amount of work being put in by these workers was not matching their pay, especially in grape fields. It makes sense for the request of a higher wage because seeing that the harvesting on grapes is done mainly by hand, and by these workers being stiffed by the farmers. "The grower kept saying, "I can't pay. I just haven't got the money." I guess he must have found the money somewhere, because we were asking $1.40 and we got it."(The Organizers Tale). This example shows the power the farm workers had due to Chavez standing up for what he believes in and fighting for better lives for his former collegues and future migrant workers that are faced with a tough life.
Cesar Chavez: “The Organizer’s Tale”
ReplyDelete“I found that if you work hard enough, you can usually shake people into working too, those who are concerned. You work harder and they work harder still, up to a point and then they pass you.” (Cesar Chavez)
I find it amazing that someone can have the determination to fight for something they believe in so hard. He started out organizing small groups and it grew to mass numbers of supporters. Chavez was so determined that he went without pay for an entire year so he could keep organizing for CSO and when he felt they were veering away from what they had originally started he resigned from being general director. He resigned because the most of the CSO leaders opposed a program to organize farm workers into a union. He immediately went to Delano and started organizing another valley. He is constantly showing that he won’t give up in what he believes in and that he won’t stop until he feels he has made a difference. He continued to start strikes with farm workers demanding fair wages and they got what they fought for. Chavez loved his line of work by bringing social justice to farm workers.
Sigrid K.