Worker in the Cane - A Puerto Rican Life History (Revised)

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.

About the author

Sidney W. Mintz is professor of anthropology at The Johns Hopkins University.

Summary

This is the absorbing story of Don Taso, a Puerto Rican sugar cane worker, and of his family and the village in which he lives. Told largely in his own words, it is a vivid account of the drastic changes taking place in Puerto Rico, as he sees them.

Product details

• Authors: Sidney W. Mintz
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.1974
• EAN: 9780393007312
• ISBN: 978-0-393-00731-2
• No. of pages: 314
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 203 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 379 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies