LOS ALTOS HISTORY MUSEUM

The Los Altos History Museum mission is collecting, preserving, and interpreting the history of the Los Altos area... In the Fields of the North / En los Campos del Norte features the work of David Bacon; is produced in partnership with... A crew of farm workers harvests romaine lettuce for Pamela Packing Company near Mecca, in the Coachella Valley. This crew cuts and packs the lettuce into boxes on the ground, the way lettuce harvesting was organized until the 1990s. This system gave lettuce workers control over the speed of the work and the amount cut. Growers replaced this work system in most places with lettuce machines, to end control of the harvest by workers.

Primary location: Los Altos United States