Labor and Afterlives of Wartime Incarceration: Japanese American Workers at Seabrook Farms

In 1944, Seabrook Farms began recruiting incarcerated Japanese Americans from War Relocation Authority camps, through a federal resettlement program. This dialogue explores Japanese American experiences as workers at Seabrook Farms, and what they encountered on plant assembly lines, and in the many other positions they came to occupy. Participants in the dialogue will have the opportunity to discuss agricultural and food processing work in South Jersey more generally, and what these industries have meant to migrants and workers in the region.