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On the other side [electronic resource] / a film by Nozomi Ito, Aoife Nugent, Peter Scheehle and Allan Shinohara ; B-Line films.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Ethnographic video online.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Migrant agricultural laborers--Massachusetts.
- Migrant agricultural laborers.
- Migrant labor--Massachusetts.
- Migrant labor.
- Jamaicans--Massachusetts.
- Jamaicans.
- Tobacco--Massachusetts.
- Tobacco.
- Genre:
- Ethnographic films.
- Documentary films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 streaming video (51 min.) : sd., col.
- Place of Publication:
- Watertown, Mass. : Documentary Educational Resources, 2007.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- Each summer, Jamaican migrant farm workers flood the sleepy towns of rural Massachusetts, arriving to work the tobacco harvest, the staple crop of the region and the last to rely solely on manual labor. Traveling 3,000 miles, they spend up to eight months out of each year working amongst the vast sea of tobacco plants and suspended high above the rafters of the sheds where the plants are hung to dry. Media coverage of migrant workers tends to focus on the sensational and inhumane working conditions, poor housing, or other forms of exploitation. The story we discovered is far more subtle. Told in the workers' own words, On the Other Side rises above the political to focus on the often-overlooked human face of migrant labor. What emerges is an inspirational story of sacrifice and love of family; of hard work and dedication; and of bitter isolation and loneliness.
- Notes:
- Title from title frames (Ethnographic video online, viewed on Feb. 13, 2012).
- Previously released on DVD.
- Recorded in Massachusetts.
- Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2010. (Ethnographic video online). Available via World Wide Web.
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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