Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08825
Notes:
Pages 1007-1023 in Rob Roggema (ed.), Agriculture in an urbanizing society volume two: proceedings of the sixth AESOP conference on sustainable food planning. United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Pages 601-1274.
16 pages., Via online journal., Indigenous Mexican immigrants (Mixtecs) from rural Oaxaca, Mexico, experience a high
level of isolation and seasonal farm work, but the increasing speed of communication
technology stands to overcome these difficulties. For farm workers, the initial experience
of landlines and public pay phones was filled with anxiety and missed connections.
Despite the benefits of mobile phones, their adoption was delayed among Mixtec in
Oxnard, California, because of a combination of legal status, high cost, and seasonal
work. This article finds that a surge in mobile phone adoption and use took place during
a time where production of labor-intensive crops like strawberries increased throughout
California, farm worker settlement patterns matured, and mobile phone plans changed
becoming more affordable and easier to understand. The widespread adoption of mobile
phones brought more predictability to the informal agricultural job market for farm
workers, but this did not necessarily mean higher wages in the strawberry fields.
Cunningham, Saul A. (author) and CSIRO, Land and Water, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Fenner School for Environment and Society, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
2017-02
Published:
Australia: Blackwell Publishing
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 162 Document Number: D08137
USA: Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 30 Document Number: D10566
Notes:
10 pages., via website, The national magazine of the Sierra Club., FOR 47 YEARS, HARVEY KRAGE LIVED IN a white farmhouse with red shutters on the side of a bluff about 11 miles from the Mississippi River in southeastern Minnesota. He and his family kept ducks in a pair of ponds and drank water from the springhouse in their backyard. For three decades, Krage commuted from the farm through a woodland of red cedar and black maple, past corn and bean fields, to the small city of Winona, where he retreaded massive, heavy construction tires for Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company. Then for another decade, he drove the company's semitrailers, passing the long hours with talk radio, especially the diatribes of right-wing commentator Rush Limbaugh. That's how he first heard about climate change, "about how crazy these scientists were."
