Bruce Neuburger is the author of Lettuce Wars: Ten Years of Work and Struggle in the Fields of California and also its Spanish translation, Guerras de Lechuga. His writing and is influenced by years working on farms and in factories, as a cab driver, an ESL teacher and a video arts instructor, and reflects a worldview both shaped by the great social justice movements of the 1960s, and his experiences as a child of Holocaust survivors from Germany,