Tama Farmers Trust, a body representing tobacco growers’ interests, has noted increasing production costs due to the need for ...

Some of his best passages come early, recalling summers spent on his uncles' farms, working in the tobacco fields. The Life of a Blue Collar Actor By Jordan Rhodes Rhodes Productions, $19.95 paperback ...

Oxfam and FLOC conducted a joint study of the tobacco industry’s impact on the human rights of farmworkers in the fields of North Carolina. One in four—22 out of the 86 workers interviewed—reported ...

And fairly early on the English ruled out the possibility of Native Americans as a work force in their tobacco fields. It was to England itself that Virginia planters turned for labor in the 1620s ...