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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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Close to Home
An extremely realistic portrait of the area that I was born in to and spent the first twenty years of my life. This book is so well researched and insightful that I learned many things about the industry that sustained my home town. More importantly though it introduces the reader to the poor immigrant workers that slave away to produce the sugar that most give no...
Published on November 21, 1999 by Frederick Naile
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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An important work
This documentary of the life of Florida's sugarcane workers should be required reading for every legislator voting on the sugar industry's subsidies, every citizen living in the State of Florida, and every person who consumes sugar in the U.S. As the book is focused social ills, it subsequently fails to adequately address the issue of the crop's environmental damage;...
Published on May 4, 1999
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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Close to Home,
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This review is from: Big Sugar: Seasons in the Canefields of Florida (Hardcover)
An extremely realistic portrait of the area that I was born in to and spent the first twenty years of my life. This book is so well researched and insightful that I learned many things about the industry that sustained my home town. More importantly though it introduces the reader to the poor immigrant workers that slave away to produce the sugar that most give no thought. If you would would like to be immersed in a world that you know nothing about and learn of a culture, while American, is as different as you may find this book will entertain and educate you.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
An important work,
By A Customer
This review is from: Big Sugar: Seasons in the Canefields of Florida (Hardcover)
This documentary of the life of Florida's sugarcane workers should be required reading for every legislator voting on the sugar industry's subsidies, every citizen living in the State of Florida, and every person who consumes sugar in the U.S. As the book is focused social ills, it subsequently fails to adequately address the issue of the crop's environmental damage; and while it is a bit dated, it is yet a compelling look at the darker side of sugar.
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Big Sugar: Seasons in the Canefields of Florida by Alec Wilkinson (Hardcover - September 2, 1989)
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