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 ...

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 ...

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 ...