For the first time in its 164-year history, the California state fair will includes a farmworker exhibit, celebrating the people who have keep the state’s $47-billion industry running.
“The exhibit features the stories of pioneers who founded the United Farm Workers of America: Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta and Filipino union leader Larry Itliong,” along with information on modern-day labor laws like the one signed by Gov. Jerry Brown last year, guaranteeing overtime pay after an eight-hour workday for farmworkers, says Lake County News.
“Among the materials on display (in one of the fair’s busiest halls) will be photographs showing the farmworker life, items of clothing worn by Chavez, and tools, including the short-handled hoe that was outlawed by the state in 1975 because it contributed to worker injuries,” says the Fresno Bee.