The Social Problems of Migrant Farm Laborers
Author : Melvin S. Brooks
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Page : 266 pages
File Size : 30,79 MB
Release : 1960
Category : Agricultural laborers
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Author : Melvin S. Brooks
Publisher :
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 30,79 MB
Release : 1960
Category : Agricultural laborers
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Author : Melvin S. Brooks
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Page : 12 pages
File Size : 19,9 MB
Release : 1960
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Author : W. K. Barger
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 21,25 MB
Release : 2010-07-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0292792123
The Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC) was founded by Baldemar Velásquez in 1967 to challenge the poverty and powerlessness that confronted migrant farmworkers in the Midwest. This study documents FLOC's development through its first quarter century and analyzes its effectiveness as a social reform movement. Barger and Reza describe FLOC's founding as a sister organization of the United Farm Workers (UFW). They devote particular attention to FLOC's eight-year struggle (1978-1986) with the Campbell Soup company that led to three-way contracts for improved working conditions between FLOC, Campbell Soup, and Campbell's tomato and cucumber growers in Ohio and Michigan. This contract significantly changed the structure of agribusiness and instituted key reforms in American farm labor. The authors also address the processes of social change involved in FLOC actions. Their findings are based on extensive research among farmworkers, growers, and representatives of agribusiness, as well as personal involvement with FLOC leaders and supporters.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Migratory Labor
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Page : 120 pages
File Size : 15,64 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Agricultural laborers
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Migratory farm workers employed in 688 countries in 46 states in 1965 represent a 9 percent increase over 1964. Average earnings for the migratory farm worker in 1965 were $1,737. In spite of the new legislation, which is described, there are additional needs in the areas of wages, child labor, health, education, day care, housing, sanitation, and Volunteers in Service to America. The following corrective legislation was recommended: (1) extension of collective bargaining rights to migrant workers under the National Labor Relations Act, (2) modernized recruitment procedures to result in substantial year-round employment and a more stabilized labor supply, (3) establishment of a national advisory committee, (4) rapid tax amortization for construction of migrant housing, (5) extension of compulsory workmen's compensation laws, (6) unemployment insurance laws for migratory farm workers, (7) modification of old age, survivors, and disability insurance, and (8) public welfare assistance based on need rather than residence. The appendixes contain information concerning domestic agricultural migrants in the United States by states and county and grant assistance by state and project. A map of domestic agricultural migrants by county in the United States and a minority report by two committee members are included.
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Page : 122 pages
File Size : 40,99 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Agricultural laborers
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Author : Ronald L. Goldfarb
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 37,95 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Business & Economics
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Author : Seth M. Holmes
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 29,85 MB
Release : 2023-11-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520399455
Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies provides an intimate examination of the everyday lives, suffering, and resistance of Mexican migrants in our contemporary food system. Seth Holmes, an anthropologist and MD in the mold of Paul Farmer and Didier Fassin, shows how market forces, anti-immigrant sentiment, and racism undermine health and health care. Holmes was invited to trek with his companions clandestinely through the desert into Arizona and was jailed with them before they were deported. He lived with Indigenous families in the mountains of Oaxaca and in farm labor camps in the United States, planted and harvested corn, picked strawberries, and accompanied sick workers to clinics and hospitals. This “embodied anthropology” deepens our theoretical understanding of the ways in which social inequities come to be perceived as normal and natural in society and in health care. In a substantive new epilogue, Holmes and Indigenous Oaxacan scholar Jorge Ramirez-Lopez provide a current examination of the challenges facing farmworkers and the lives and resistance of the protagonists featured in the book.
Author : Willard A. Heaps
Publisher : Crown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 36,88 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Business & Economics
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Examines, chiefly through interviews with migrant workers, their problems of employment, housing, and child welfare and education.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Migratory Labor
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Page : 972 pages
File Size : 16,78 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Government publications
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Author : Thomas A. Arcury
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 24,82 MB
Release : 2009-02-27
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0387883479
They work at some of America’s most hazardous jobs, have few protections, and receive some of the lowest wages. Latino Farmworkers in the Eastern United States describes this understudied and underserved population. Taking a social justice stance, this volume examines the health and living conditions of workers in agriculture, while advocating for equality. Contributors cover all major areas of illness and injury (including occupational, environmental, infections, and pesticides), while also focusing on systemic social conditions, from lax industry regulations to lack of basic services—problems that are exacerbated by workers’ status as recent immigrants. Mental health burdens from the effects of discrimination to substance use, as well as the cumulative impact of workers’ separation from families are discussed for a comprehensive, meticulously documented resource. Written to serve both the seasoned professional and the newcomer, Latino Farmworkers in the Eastern United States is a bedrock source of information for those providing health and social services in the community, for researchers investigating health and safety disparities, and for advocates and policymakers working to correct them.