The Harvest Gypsies
Students Name
Course
Lecture
Date
SummaryThe Harvest gypsies are composed of seven newspaper articles that were written for the San Francisco News by John Steinbeck and were later published from October 5 to 12 1936. It was then in 1938 that an eighth chapter was added. The content of these articles is about the migrants in California both local and foreign and the experiences they underwent from meager salaries to poor living conditions. The author in his piece also tells on the solutions to the workers’ poor conditions like the construction of more camps for the workers and the families. While some may view this article as only a piece of literature it remains one of the documents that contain the hand-on experiences on what these workers who previously were doing good and had only be forced by circumstances were being oppressed. It remains a very important piece of American history and it laid a foundation for the author’s next piece, “The Grapes of Wrath”.
Article Arguments
Many years have passed since slavery was abolished after the Civils right movement and the ratification of the amendments that required than everyone was treated equally regardless of their race or religion. Sadly, another slavery is still evident in our society today human trafficking, these mostly affect young people who are shipped and become prostitutes. There have been many stories about a few people who have gone to look for greener pastures end up being taken advantage of. These people who are made to work for little or no pay, while in most cases they end up go willingly it is evident that in most cases these people are usually promised of a better job and a better form until they reach there and they are forced to prostitution. Unfortunately, these cases are not only for migrants since they have been reported to also take within borders. Additionally, most migrant workers’ lack of documentation makes them prone to being taken advantage of and being paid meager salaries and they tend to work many jobs to sustain themselves in these countries. While these people get exploited they can hardly report because they risk deportation and while these laws tens to differ across different countries the workers’ mistreatment cuts across every state.
Relationship with Class content
From our class content and the articles, the treatment of workers in foreign countries is common where both agree that these people are more liable to receive less pay than their fellow workers who are citizens. Migrants have been classified as illegal from way back where we see the representatives trying to come up with a bill terming them illegal despite them being law-abiding and taxpayers. Addition, the poor living conditions that these people go through are common, today they are countries in crisis and the citizens have moved to neighboring countries where they are reports of the filth conditions that expose them to many diseases yet they hardly get the treatment. While the article’s term that building more camps would help lessen the burden and improve the migrants living conditions from our class content we realized that by one ensuring they acquire the correct documents they will be able to manage better jobs. Lastly, many agencies have been put into place to ensure trafficking which is one way that migrants can get to neighboring countries is abolished by setting up forces along the borders.
Bibliography
J. Meyer, Michael. The Harvest Gypsies. Ebook. Chicago, 1936. http://travelstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/On-The-Harvest-Gypsies.pdf.
Van den Anker, Christien. Rights And Responsibilities In Trafficking For Forced Labour: Migration Regimes, Labour Law And Welfare States. Ebook. Bristol: Web Journal of Current Legal Issues, 2009. https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/preview/1006679/vandenankerlegalissues.pdf.
