Fruits of Their Own Labor: Farmworker Cooperatives Empower Laborers and Anchor Communities

Gita Connolly is a law student at the University of Wisconsin Law School and a summer intern with the HLS Food Law & Policy Clinic. She is a guest contributor to this blog. Farmworkers endure more than a garden variety of challenges and exploitative practices while on the job: wage theft, occupational hazards, inadequate housing, and labor violations, to name a…

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Protecting Farmworkers and Their Families: Pesticide Exposure and Childhood Asthma

Jean Shen is a law student in the Harvard Law School Food Law & Policy Clinic and a guest contributor to this blog. Exposure to pesticides is an inescapable reality that endangers the health of not only farmworkers, but also their children and families. Over 1 billion pounds of pesticides are applied to crops each year in the United States—as…

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