1 Notes on Methodology.-2 Fields of Solidarity and Violence.-3 The Importance of the Workers' Grievances.-4 The Political Economy of Farm-Labor.-5 Lessons from Farm-Labor Organizing in the Age of Trump. Notes on MethodologyThis study investigates why farm-labor has remained one of the most hazardous occupations in the United States many years after Edward Murrow's Harvest of Shame (1961).Having been conducted over a period of 15 years, it combines a number of different methodological approaches adopted at different times.In the early years of this work, I combined an ethnographic approach with a political sociology perspective to analyze the ways in which workers and growers negotiate their position in the food-chain.Secondarily, I applied the methods of political economy to study the social relations of production within the US-Mexico food-chain.It was my intent to listen closely to the voices of the workers and to look at social research as an instrument of social change.As the pursuit of a closer relationship with the workers was both ethically and methodologically important, a multi-faceted representation of the humanity of these workers required that I interacted with them in situations other than the camps where they lived in North Carolina.In this sense, this study became a transnational analysis of farm-labor that took me from the fields of North Carolina to the Mexican countryside.In general, I began this work in 2004.Between 2004 and 2007 I visited North Carolina regularly every few months.In that period I spent about 6 months in the field.Beyond my stay in North Carolina in 2004Carolina in , 2005Carolina in , and 2006 and my visit to Mexico in 2005, my activity with FLOC continued in Atlanta with a small group of FLOC sympathizers who worked to organize a few events and fundraisers.In this sense, during that time my constant presence in the union's activity helped me to consolidate my relationship with the workers and organizers.In the same period I carried out 26 indepth, face-to-face, semi-structured interviews with the workers across the