"From the beet fields of North Dakota to the National Forest campgrounds of California to Amazon's CamperForce program in Texas, employers have discovered a new, low-cost labor pool, made up largely of transient older Americans. Finding that social security comes up short, often underwater on mortgages, these invisible casualties of the Great Recession have taken to the road by the tens of thousands in late-model RVs, travel trailers, and vans, forming...

Pitfall: When a miner leaves his employer and treks out with his young son to become a migrant worker, he finds himself moving from one eerie landscape to another, intermittently followed (and photographed) by an enigmatic man in a clean, white suit, and eventually coming face-to-face with his inescapable destiny. Woman in the dunes: An amateur entomologist leaves Tokyo to study an unclassified species of beetle that resides in a remote, vast desert....

"Farmworkers, labor organizers, and social justice advocates cherich the legacy of activist Cesar Chavez. It is a legacy founded on the firm grasp of farmworkers' basic rights, as well as a far-reaching plan to secure those rights. A former field hand who endured the hardships of the Great Depression in his native Arizona and in California, Cesar established the most seccessfull labor union for farmworkers. Guided by his spiritual insight and his...

A biography on the migrant worker who organized the immigrant laborers in order to get better wages.