Her forthcoming book, Occupying Schools, Occupying Land: How the Landless Workers Movement Transformed Brazilian Education (Oxford University Press) examines the educational initiatives of the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement (MST), a national social movement of rural workers struggling for agrarian reform. (naeducation.org)
The first film I ever saw from the People's Republic of China was Li Wen - hua's Breaking With Old Ideas (1975), a film about the building of a college for rural workers made during the last years of the Cultural Revolution. (chicagoreader.com)
[113] The most vulnerable of these become temporary laborers, and many rural workers end up moving to poverty - stricken urban areas. (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)