Name: Long Island Migrant Labor Camps: Dust for Blood
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Author: Torres, Mark A.
ISBN: 9781467147842

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Long Island Migrant Labor Camps: Dust for Blood

Type

Physical Book

Author

Mark A. Torres

Publisher

History Press

Year

2021

Language

English

Pages

207

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

26.4 x 10.7 x 1.0 cm

Weight

0.41 kg.

ISBN13

9781467147842

Synopsis "Long Island Migrant Labor Camps: Dust for Blood "

During World War II, a group of potato farmers opened the first migrant labor camp in Suffolk County to house farmworkers from Jamaica. Over the next twenty years, more than one hundred camps of various sizes would be built throughout the region. Thousands of migrant workers lured by promises of good wages and decent housing flocked to Eastern Long Island, where they were often cheated out of pay and housed in deadly slum-like conditions. Preyed on by corrupt camp operators and entrapped in a feudal system that left them mired in debt, laborers struggled and, in some cases, perished in the shadow of New York's affluence. Author Mark A. Torres reveals the dreadful history of Long Island's migrant labor camps from their inception to their peak in 1960 and their steady decline in the following decades.

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