Nicaragua Before Now: Factory Work, Farming, and Fishing in a Low-wage Global Economy Paperback – October 1, 2010

"Nicaragua Before Now" is an intense diary with exceptional detail. The activities of the population's daily living ar revealed in extra-ordinary stunning photography. Farrell's insightful and moving photographs of the local culture are alone worth the price of the book. Highly recommended!

Anyone interested in Central America, labor issues, and the impact of globalism on rural workers will find this beautiful book both useful as a window on reality and inspiring as a testament to human dignity and effort. Nell Farrell is a master documentary photographer. Her images of lobster divers, sugar cane cutters, small ranchers, and factory workers and their families are revealingly rich and take us directly and intimately into their lives. Her first person accounts and vivid interviews create a context in which subtle and complicated issues of class and circumstance can be approached with understanding -- a "worker" is a person with a full human life. What moves me most is Farrell's sensitivity to the profound differences between who we are and what we do. I highly recommend Nicaragua Before Now.

This is a very insightful book that is also very interesting to read and view. Both the photos and text brought me into a world I would otherwise never experience or understand. The small details paint a vivid picture of cultures we need to hear about. How can human and family lives be so completely different from ours and yet connected directly to us? It's amazing. Farrell brings us right into the homes and lives of caring hardworking people. She does not filter the reality, but provides the words and pictures directly. I usually read fiction, but this book caught and held my interest from start to finish.  Nicaragua Before Now: Factory Work, Farming, and Fishing in a Low-wage Global Economy