This is a fascinating, deeply geeky and inspiring story of workers building a whole system from the seeds of popular education to ensure that their human rights are met. Almost perfect for a massive social justice nerd like me!

The reasons I didn't give it 5 stars are: it's slow and repetetive, it spends too much time describing individuals and places when it could just get straight to the action, the narrative is a bit jumpy and all over the place, it cuts a bit too much slack to the managers and corporations for my liking, and it rarely/ never frames the workers' situations in terms of race and racism, preferring instead to refer to the workers' shared status as migrants. Workers from Mexico, Guatemala and Haiti must surely have experienced some racially motivated abuse or discrimination at some point, and to simply imply that all of the abuse the workers endured was the same (apart from the misogyny and sexual abuse experienced by women workers) and that race had no relevance seems remiss and lacking in nuance.

Overall though, a motivating and inspiring account of an astonishingly successful movement that is still in full force today.

This book had GREAT PROMISE but unfortunately, the PDF copy did not translate well to kindle. when Netgalley sent the document to my Kindle, it came across with bad formatting and line breaks. after several attempts to read, I gave up. I might buy this book to get a good read of it, but as far as an ARC review goes, it was a non-starter.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34692001-i-am-not-a-tractor?from_search=true

If you are very interested in agricultural issues (and I guess if we eat we should be), then plug through this book. It will give you some big things to think about.