![]() “There has never been any control or the enforcement of child labor in agriculture – never, as far as I have seen, as far as I have known.”īorn in the 1940s in South Texas, she’s always been acutely aware of the ways in which farmworkers have been overlooked. “And so we were all, you know, young, little kids working in the fields, holding down a job to add to the income that my family so desperately needed. My sisters I think were 14, 14, 13 and 12, something like that,” she said. “When I was working, when we were picking cotton in South Texas, I was 10 years old. Rebecca Flores, a lifelong organizer who lives on the southside of San Antonio, spent three decades with the United Farm Workers and grew up seeing the same things Chávez saw. ![]() They were regularly cheated out of their meager wages, worked to the bone, and under conditions that would be difficult to even fathom today. News & World Report magazine photograph collection (Library of Congress) Labor organizer César Chávez speaks during a 1979 interview. ![]()
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