Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Migratory Labor
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
The Farm Labor Problem
Author: J. Edward Taylor
Publisher: Academic Press
ISBN: 0128172681
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The Farm Labor Problem: A Global Perspective explores the unique character of agricultural labor markets and the implications for food production, farm worker welfare and advocacy, and immigration policy. Agricultural labor markets differ from other labor markets in fundamental ways related to seasonality and uncertainty, and they evolve differently than other labor markets as economies develop. We weave economic analysis with the history of agricultural labor markets using data and real-world events. The farm labor history of California and the United States is particularly rich, so it plays a central role in the book, but the book has a global perspective ensuring its relevance to Europe and high-income Asian countries. The chapters in this book provide readers with the basics for understanding how farm labor markets work (labor in agricultural household models, farm labor supply and demand, spatial market equilibria); farm labor and immigration policy; farm labor organizing; farm employment and rural poverty; unionization and the United Farm Workers movement; the Fair Food Program as a new approach to collective bargaining; the declining immigrant farm labor supply; and what economic development in relatively low-income countries portends for the future of agriculture in the United States and other high-income countries. The book concludes with a chapter called "Robots in the Fields," which extrapolates current trends to a perhaps not-so-distant future. The Farm Labor Problem serves as both a guide to policy makers, farmworker advocates and international development organizations and as a textbook for students of agricultural economics and economics. - Describes the unique character of agricultural labor markets providing consequential insights - Contextualizes the economics of agricultural labor with a global perspective - Examines the history of farm labor, immigration, policy and collective bargaining with a view to the future
Publisher: Academic Press
ISBN: 0128172681
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The Farm Labor Problem: A Global Perspective explores the unique character of agricultural labor markets and the implications for food production, farm worker welfare and advocacy, and immigration policy. Agricultural labor markets differ from other labor markets in fundamental ways related to seasonality and uncertainty, and they evolve differently than other labor markets as economies develop. We weave economic analysis with the history of agricultural labor markets using data and real-world events. The farm labor history of California and the United States is particularly rich, so it plays a central role in the book, but the book has a global perspective ensuring its relevance to Europe and high-income Asian countries. The chapters in this book provide readers with the basics for understanding how farm labor markets work (labor in agricultural household models, farm labor supply and demand, spatial market equilibria); farm labor and immigration policy; farm labor organizing; farm employment and rural poverty; unionization and the United Farm Workers movement; the Fair Food Program as a new approach to collective bargaining; the declining immigrant farm labor supply; and what economic development in relatively low-income countries portends for the future of agriculture in the United States and other high-income countries. The book concludes with a chapter called "Robots in the Fields," which extrapolates current trends to a perhaps not-so-distant future. The Farm Labor Problem serves as both a guide to policy makers, farmworker advocates and international development organizations and as a textbook for students of agricultural economics and economics. - Describes the unique character of agricultural labor markets providing consequential insights - Contextualizes the economics of agricultural labor with a global perspective - Examines the history of farm labor, immigration, policy and collective bargaining with a view to the future
Colonial Migrants at the Heart of Empire
Author: Ismael García-Colón
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520325796
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
Colonial Migrants at the Heart of Empire is the first in-depth look at the experiences of Puerto Rican migrant workers in continental U.S. agriculture in the twentieth century. The Farm Labor Program, established by the government of Puerto Rico in 1947, placed hundreds of thousands of migrant workers on U.S. farms and fostered the emergence of many stateside Puerto Rican communities. Ismael García-Colón investigates the origins and development of this program and uncovers the unique challenges faced by its participants. A labor history and an ethnography, Colonial Migrants evokes the violence, fieldwork, food, lodging, surveillance, and coercion that these workers experienced on farms and conveys their hopes and struggles to overcome poverty. Island farmworkers encountered a unique form of prejudice and racism arising from their dual status as both U.S. citizens and as “foreign others,” and their experiences were further shaped by evolving immigration policies. Despite these challenges, many Puerto Rican farmworkers ultimately chose to settle in rural U.S. communities, contributing to the production of food and the Latinization of the U.S. farm labor force.
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520325796
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
Colonial Migrants at the Heart of Empire is the first in-depth look at the experiences of Puerto Rican migrant workers in continental U.S. agriculture in the twentieth century. The Farm Labor Program, established by the government of Puerto Rico in 1947, placed hundreds of thousands of migrant workers on U.S. farms and fostered the emergence of many stateside Puerto Rican communities. Ismael García-Colón investigates the origins and development of this program and uncovers the unique challenges faced by its participants. A labor history and an ethnography, Colonial Migrants evokes the violence, fieldwork, food, lodging, surveillance, and coercion that these workers experienced on farms and conveys their hopes and struggles to overcome poverty. Island farmworkers encountered a unique form of prejudice and racism arising from their dual status as both U.S. citizens and as “foreign others,” and their experiences were further shaped by evolving immigration policies. Despite these challenges, many Puerto Rican farmworkers ultimately chose to settle in rural U.S. communities, contributing to the production of food and the Latinization of the U.S. farm labor force.
The Fair Labor Standards Act
Author: Ellen C. Kearns
Publisher: Greenwood Press
ISBN: 9781570181085
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 1756
Book Description
Publisher: Greenwood Press
ISBN: 9781570181085
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 1756
Book Description
The Migratory Farm Labor Problem in the United States
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Migratory Labor
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
The Migratory Farm Labor Problem in the United States
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Migratory Labor
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
The Migratory Farm Labor Problem in the United States
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Farm Workers, Agribusiness, and the State
Author: Linda C. Majka
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
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.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
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.
The Migratory Farm Labor Problem in the United States
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Migratory Labor
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor policy
Languages : en
Pages : 1756
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor policy
Languages : en
Pages : 1756
Book Description
Migrant and Seasonal Farmworker Powerlessness: A-B. Manpower and economic problems. 2 v
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Migratory Labor
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 972
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 972
Book Description