This project is part of a multi-volume, multi-decade effort uniting scholarship, literary journalism, and social documentary photography. It underscores the huge and widening gap between rich and poor in rural California, where a dozen small, increasingly impoverished, dysfunctional farm towns exist on the edge of chaos, drifting in and out of bankruptcy, little more than giant farm labor exploitation camps. This trend has always existed, but in the past ten years has accelerated. My work questions the over- dependence on industrialized, petro-agriculture. My goal is to heat up the debate about the nature of agribusiness, nudge food production toward a more humane and sustainable system, and provide a model that encourages academics to adopt a broadened and more engaged approach to scholarly enquiry.

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Migration and immigration, Work, Economic Development, Poverty, Workers rights/unions, Work, Homelessness, Farm labor, agriculture, lettuce, California

California Rural Legal Assistance

California Institute for Rural Studies

Fund for Investigative Journalism

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Knife Fight City