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.

Author: Sidney W. Mintz
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 11/17/1974
Pages: 314
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.58lbs
Size: 7.74h x 5.13w x 0.88d
ISBN13: 9780393007312
ISBN10: 0393007316
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs