| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 104.3

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Cindy Hahamovitch. The Fruits of Their Labor: Atlantic Coast Farmworkers and the Making of Migrant Poverty, 1870–1945. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 1997. Pp. xiii, 287. Cloth $45.00, paper $17.95.

This study of migrant farm workers in East Coast agriculture delivers more than its title promises. Cindy Hahamovitch has not only redeemed from obscurity the immigrant and black workers who harvested vegetables in a region extending from New Jersey to Florida but also revealed the active role played by the U.S. government in ensuring an oversupply of labor. Along the Atlantic Coast, as in California, migrant farm workers have been ill-paid, ill-housed, and ill-fed, often earning just enough from their labor to enable them to move on to the next job. Growers' dependence on transient laborers to harvest perishable crops placed workers in a position of strength for one crucial moment, but farm workers' efforts at organizing were undermined by growers' ability to replace them at a moment's notice. The oversupply of labor thus depressed wages directly, through the market, and indirectly, by undermining the bargaining power that workers might exert through collective action. . . .

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