Re: maps/streams

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Hi and - The earliest map that I am aware of was in the US DoL

publication, " Farm Labor Fact Book, " 1959. On p. 114, there is a map

titled " Principal Migratory Routes. " The term " stream " is not used.

It was suggested in this e-group some time ago, by Greg Schell, I believe,

that Ed Murrow's " Harvest of Shame " documentary was the origin of the

stream concept. Recently, I had an opportunity to review that fine

documentary for another purpose. The main focus of the documentary was the

Florida workers who travel as far north as New York in the course of a

season. Murrow does mention, very briefly, that there are similar

movements of workers from Texas north to the midwest, and from Arizona and

California north to Oregon and Washington. However, there was no mention

of " three streams " as they are used by service providers, even today, nor

was any map or other visual representation shown. Thus, Murrow explicitly

suggests something similar, but not quite exactly so.

Warm regards,

Don

At 07:45 AM 3/15/02 -0700, you wrote:

>Hi . Are you returning the discussion of streams/maps to the field

>for further play?

>

>The map in Ingolf Vogeler (1982) is similar to maps in -Truman , 1965,

>The Slaves We Rent; -National Migrant Information Clearing House

>(Juarez-Lincoln Center, Austin), 1974; -President's Commission on Mental

>Health, 1978, Task Panel Report: Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers; -

>Goldfarb, 1981, Migrant Farm Workers: A Caste of Despair. There. That's

>four before Vogeler's 1982 map. Also, Dement, 1985, Out of Sight,

>Out of Mind. Dement has a second map two pages away. Although they closely

>replicate each other, alterations that are noticeable in these maps is the

>ambiguity on whether farmworkers were going from FL to TX, or TX to FL, or

>from TX to CA, or CA to TX; KY, TN and ME, as receiving areas, were left

>out of some of the maps. Although Puerto Rico is shown as a worker source

>on some maps, the southwestern states and none of the northern states show

>border origins (the southwestern border became increasingly porous after

>cessation of the Bracero Program). These maps vary in their artistic

>production: some show the streams as wispy, some show them as stubby. There

>is a consistency in the sickle-streamlet that runs from Montana into North

>Dakota. I think of wheat farms when I see the sickle-streamlet on these

>maps: the roots of itinerant farm labor, and subsequent formations of farm

>work we have today, are traced to the industrialization of wheat farms in

>the middle/late 1800s. None of these maps show much in the way of

>short-travel, which NAWS handles by devising the concepts of settled,

>shuttle and follow-the-crop workers. Unless the decreasing mass of the

>streams and streamlets is meant to represent decreasing numbers of persons,

>engaged in agricultural labor, as one proceeds from home-base locales.

>

>I mentioned Carey Mc, 1942, Ill Fares the Land, in my Jan 30 2002

>list-serve thank you. There apparently are other early maps which I am

>seeking to secure. And there are several very different maps that were

>prepared by other folks, other groups.

>

>Unsuccessful with Vogeler's " many web sites, " I went directly to the

>library for The Myth of the Family Farm. Vogeler relies heavily in the

>latter half of his book on Walter Goldschmidt's 1944 study in CA, which he

>was not permitted to continue to a second phase. An anthropologist,

>Goldschmidt describes this incident in a remembrance-essay in the American

>Anthropologist (Volume 102, Number 4, 2001).

>

>Halo? . Are you still there...?

>

> V Bletzer. Dep of Anthropology, Arizona State Univ.

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