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A Day Without Sunshine
A Film by Robert Thurber
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A classic documentary about America's farmworkers, A DAY WITHOUT SUNSHINE is a penetrating look at the Florida citrus industry and the workers who harvest its fruit.

A DAY WITHOUT SUNSHINE reveals the farmworkers' seemingly perpetual plight: low wages, poor living conditions, malnutrition, hunger, disease, and - above all - an overwhelming sense of powerlessness.

The film also examines the other side of the coin, the economics and politics of modern day agribusiness. It investigates Florida's highly organized citrus industry and its many affiliations with the State's government.

"Not since Edward R. Murrow's Harvest of Shame have we been so moved by a documentary as by this special A DAY WITHOUT SUNSHINE."—Kay Gardella, The New York Daily News.

Golden Gate Award, 1976 San Francisco Film Festival
Special Jury Prize, 1976 Nyon International Film Festival
  

60 minutes / color
Copyright Date: 1976
Sale: $285

Subject areas:
Agriculture, Economic Sociology, Florida, Labor Studies, North America, Sociology

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