How Long to Read Long Island Migrant Labor Camps: Dust for Blood

How Long Does it Take to Read Long Island Migrant Labor Camps: Dust for Blood?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 34 minutes to read Long Island Migrant Labor Camps: Dust for Blood by Mark Torres

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

During World War II, a group of potato farmers opened the first migrant labor camp in Suffolk County to house farmworkers from Jamaica. Over the next twenty years, more than one hundred camps of various sizes would be built throughout the region. Thousands of migrant workers lured by promises of good wages and decent housing flocked to Eastern Long Island, where they were often cheated out of pay and housed in deadly slum-like conditions. Preyed on by corrupt camp operators and entrapped in a feudal system that left them mired in debt, laborers struggled and, in some cases, perished in the...

How long is Long Island Migrant Labor Camps: Dust for Blood?

Long Island Migrant Labor Camps: Dust for Blood by Mark Torres is 208 pages long, and a total of 53,664 words.

This makes it 70% the length of the average book. It also has 66% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Long Island Migrant Labor Camps: Dust for Blood Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 53 minutes to read Long Island Migrant Labor Camps: Dust for Blood aloud.

What Reading Level is Long Island Migrant Labor Camps: Dust for Blood?

Long Island Migrant Labor Camps: Dust for Blood is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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