At Cesar Chavez’s funeral, his grandchildren placed on the altar a 12-inch tool known as el cortito, a relic of Chavez’s crusade to ease the pain of farmworkers who stooped for hours as they yanked ...
THE MONTEREY COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS ALSO ADOPTING A RESOLUTION TODAY COMMEMORATING THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE "SHORT HANDLED HOE" BEING OUTLAWED IN CALIFORNIA.... ALSO KNOWN AS "EL CORTITO".. IT ...
To use the short-handled hoe, field workers had to bend over and stay stooped in order to move on to the next plant. Credit: Leonard Nadel/Bracero History Archive Want more? Subscribe to our ...
SACRAMENTO — A state board on Thursday banned unnecessary hand-weeding on farms to protect workers from back injuries, acting on an emergency basis to fix a problem they had discussed for a decade.
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