Worker in the Cane: A Puerto Rican Life History

by Sidney W. Mintz

Paperback, 1974

Status

Available

Call number

390

Collection

Publication

W. W. Norton & Company (1974), Edition: Reprint, 314 pages

Description

Worker in the Cane is both a profound social document and a moving spiritual testimony. Don Taso portrays his harsh childhood, his courtship and early marriage, his grim struggle to provide for his family. He tells of his radical political beliefs and union activity during the Depression and describes his hardships when he was blacklisted because of his outspoken convictions. Embittered by his continuing poverty and by a serious illness, he undergoes a dramatic cure and becomes converted to a Protestant revivalist sect. In the concluding chapters the author interprets Don Taso's experience in the light of the changing patterns of life in rural Puerto Rico.

Language

Original language

English

Physical description

320 p.; 7.8 inches

ISBN

0393007316 / 9780393007312

Local notes

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