North for the Harvest: Mexican Workers, Growers, and the Sugar Beet Industry

Examines the complex and often suprising relationships between the participants in the sugar beet industry.

Throughout most of the twentieth century, thousands of Mexicans traveled north to work the sugar beet fields of the Minnesota–North Dakota Red River Valley. North for the Harvest examines the evolution of the relationships between American Crystal Sugar Company, the sugar beet growers, and the migrant workers. Though popular convention holds that corporations and landowners invariably ...