Migratory Labor Legislation


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Considers S. 8, to amend National Labor Relations Act to allow agricultural employees to bargain collectively. S. 195, to establish a National Advisory Council on Migratory Labor with members appointed by President. S. 197, to amend Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to exclude certain agricultural child laborers from provision 12 of Act. S. 198, to authorize DOL to provide improved coordination of training, transportation and use of migrant farm labor. Aug. 2 hearing continues investigation, begun in Texas on June 29, 1967, of treatment of migrant farmworkers in Texas.




Farm Workers, Agribusiness, and the State


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Historical account of the social conflict between agricultural workers and agribusiness, and the role of state intervention in California, USA - analyses agricultural trade unionism since 1870, immigration of Chinese, Japanese, Mexicans and Filipinos, and its regulation; examines the economic recession of the 1930s, rise of rural worker organizations, internal migration, and state-enrolled contract labour; reports on the formation of the United Farm Workers and its struggle for trade union recognition, opposition, and state mediation. Bibliography.










Latinos and Politics


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Hearings


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Hearings, Reports, Public Laws


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