{"product_id":"long-island-migrant-labor-camps-mark-a-torres-9781540246691","title":"Long Island Migrant Labor Camps: Dust for Blood","description":"During World War II, a group of potato farmers opened the first migrant labor camp in Suffolk County to house farmworkers from Jamaica. Over the next twenty years, more than one hundred camps of various sizes would be built throughout the region. Thousands of migrant workers lured by promises of good wages and decent housing flocked to Eastern Long Island, where they were often cheated out of pay and housed in deadly slum-like conditions. Preyed on by corrupt camp operators and entrapped in a feudal system that left them mired in debt, laborers struggled and, in some cases, perished in the shadow of New York's affluence. Author Mark A. Torres reveals the dreadful history of Long Island's migrant labor camps from their inception to their peak in 1960 and their steady decline in the following decades.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mark A. Torres\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1540246698\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781540246691\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e History PR\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/22\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 210\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.63lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.75h x 8.25w x 0.50d","brand":"Mark A. Torres","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44044813074687,"sku":"9781540246691","price":41.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ac44ab02-f8e4-4070-9165-796311686688.jpg?v=1684975040","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/long-island-migrant-labor-camps-mark-a-torres-9781540246691","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}