Author: Richard Laban Adams
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 88
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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
Factories in the Field
Author: Carey McWilliams
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520925181
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
This book was the first broad exposé of the social and environmental damage inflicted by the growth of corporate agriculture in California. Factories in the Field—together with the work of Dorothea Lange, Paul Taylor, and John Steinbeck—dramatizes the misery of the dust bowl migrants hoping to find work in California agriculture. McWilliams starts with the scandals of the Spanish land grant purchases, and continues on to examine the experience of the various ethnic groups that have provided labor for California's agricultural industry—Chinese, Japanese, Mexicans, Filipinos, Armenians—the strikes, and the efforts to organize labor unions
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520925181
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
This book was the first broad exposé of the social and environmental damage inflicted by the growth of corporate agriculture in California. Factories in the Field—together with the work of Dorothea Lange, Paul Taylor, and John Steinbeck—dramatizes the misery of the dust bowl migrants hoping to find work in California agriculture. McWilliams starts with the scandals of the Spanish land grant purchases, and continues on to examine the experience of the various ethnic groups that have provided labor for California's agricultural industry—Chinese, Japanese, Mexicans, Filipinos, Armenians—the strikes, and the efforts to organize labor unions
A Study of Farm Labor in California
Author: Richard Laban Adams
Publisher:
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 88
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Publisher:
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 88
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Farming and Farm Labor: a Study in California
Author: Paul E. Sultan
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Category : Agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 218
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Publisher:
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Category : Agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 218
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The Labor Market
Author: Don Divance Lescohier
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Category : Employment agencies
Languages : en
Pages : 358
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Publisher:
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Category : Employment agencies
Languages : en
Pages : 358
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Report of the Agricultural Experiment Stastion of the University of California ...
Author: California Agricultural Experiment Station
Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1190
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Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1190
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Report of the Commission on Agricultural Workers: Case studies and research reports prepared for the Commission on Agricultural Workers, 1989-1993
Author: United States. Commission on Agricultural Workers
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Category : Agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 858
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 858
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Mexican and Mexican-American Agricultural Labor in the United States
Author: Martin Howard Sable
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780866565424
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780866565424
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Priorities in Agricultural Research of the U.S. Department of Agriculture
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Administrative Practice and Procedure
Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1444
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Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1444
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Social Security Bulletin
Author:
Publisher:
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Category : Social security
Languages : en
Pages : 752
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Publisher:
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Category : Social security
Languages : en
Pages : 752
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