Although South Americans have created rubber from the sap of hevea trees for generations, the growth of the automobile industry in the early 20th century greatly increased the international demand for the product by the 1930s. This video shows the traditional method of generating rubber. First the worker carves diagonal grooves into the bark of the hevea tree. Then she harvests the sap that runs down the grooves. Finally she hardens the rubber over...

Inspired by the author's own childhood, the story is narrated by a seven-year-old farm boy named Luke Chandler, who lives in the cotton fields with his parents and grandparents. The Chandlers farm eighty acres that they rent, not own, and when the cotton is ready, they hire a truckload of Mexcians and a family from the Ozarks to help harvest it. Over six weeks, as they pick the cotton, Luke finds himself keeping secrets that not only threaten the...

While coffee is indigenous to Africa, wide-scale cultivation of the crop did not occur until the late 19th century, when European colonial governments began exporting it in an effort to raise money for their colonies. Coffee production in Kenya increased rapidly after World War II, and today, Africa produces nearly 20 percent of the world's coffee.

A powerful true story of one small group of workers overcoming corporate greed to end slavery and abuse in America's fields.

"Every year there are more than 400,000 American children who are torn away from their friends, schools, and homes to pick the food we all eat. Zulema, Perla, and Victor labor as migrant farm workers, sacrificing their own childhoods to help their families survive. Follow these three as they journey from the scorching heat of Texas' onion fields to the winter snows of the Michigan apple orchards and back south to the humidity of Florida's tomato fields...

Presents the life of Cesar Chavez, focusing primarily on his work organizing the National Farm Workers Association and working for improved working and living conditions for all Mexican Americans.

Lula, a farm-working girl with big dreams, meets Dolores Huerta, Larry Itliong, and other labor rights activists and joins the 1965 protest for workers' rights.

Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of the Great Depression.