Photo Essay: San Quintín’s Long History of Exploitation and Strikes

• Author: David Bacon
• Published date: 01 November 2020
• Date: 01 November 2020
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1177/0094582X20971616

https://doi.org/10.1177/0094582X20971616

LATIN AMERICAN PERSPECTIVES, Issue 235, Vol. 47 No. 6, November 2020, 177–178

DOI: 10.1177/0094582X20971616

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Photo Essay

San Quintín’s Long History of Exploitation and Strikes

by

David Bacon

Farm workers in Baja California have a long history of strikes and work stop-

pages to change their conditions, especially to raise the miserable wages that

force them to bring their kids into the fields. In 2015 thousands of workers in

San Quintin battled growers and the state police to win increases in the mini-

mum wage. Had this happened in California it would have been headline news

in U.S. papers.

David Bacon is a photojournalist, writer, political activist, and union organizer and the author

of In the Fields of the North (2017), The Right to Stay Home (2013), and Illegal People (2008). These

photographs will be published by the Colegio de la Frontera Norte in the forthcoming More

Than a Wall.

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Francisco, a 12-year-old boy from a migrant family from Oaxaca, picking tomatoes on the

ranch of the Santa Cruz Packing Co., owned by the Castañeda family, Vicente Guerrero,

Baja California, 2000.