Fields Of Resistance: The Struggle of Florida's Agricultural Workers for Justice

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Migrant farm workers are still routinely forced to live and work in unsafe, often desperate conditions, held against their will in what amounts to a modern manifestation of slavery. In Immokalee, Florida, the tomato capital of the world - which has earned the dubious distinction of being ground zero for modern slavery' - farm workers organised themselves into the Coalition of Immokalee Workers and launched a nationwide boycott campaign that forced some of the biggest global multi-nationals including McDonalds and Burger King to recognise their demands.'

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Silvia Giagnoni is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication and Dramatic Arts at Auburn University Montgomery. She has published (both in English and in Italian) journalistic and scholarly articles on popular music, film and social movements among others. Giagnoni also co-produced and co-directed the documentary Take it Back Evangelical Christianity and Popular Music (2006); she is Associate Producer and Consultant in El Green Grown Tomato, a documentary film by Daniel P. Herrera (currently in post-production).