Working Poor : Farmworkers in the United States /

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Working Poor investigates the lives and working conditions of migrant farmworkers in seven regions of the United States. The community studies in this volume include descriptions and analyses of the low-income neighborhoods of Immokalee, Florida; Parlier, California; Weslaco, Texas; and Mayagüez, P...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Griffith, David, 1951-
Otros Autores: Camposeco, Jerónimo, Kissam, Edward, 1943-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1995.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Business & Economics.
Agricultural Economics.
Armut
Saisonarbeiter
Soziale Situation
Landarbeiter
Migrant agricultural laborers.
Agricultural laborers.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Knowledge Capital.
Travailleurs agricoles migrants > États-Unis.
Travailleurs agricoles > États-Unis.
Migrant agricultural laborers > United States.
Agricultural laborers > United States.
USA.
USA
United States.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Working Poor investigates the lives and working conditions of migrant farmworkers in seven regions of the United States. The community studies in this volume include descriptions and analyses of the low-income neighborhoods of Immokalee, Florida; Parlier, California; Weslaco, Texas; and Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, where growers and farm contractors put immigrants to work in fruit and vegetable harvests. The authors link farmworker communities that have winter growing seasons with summer labor supply demand regions in the northern United States, in particular south-western Michigan, N.
Notas:"All photographs dated between 1937 and 1940 are from the U.S. Farm Security Administration Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress."--Title page verso.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (368 pages): illustrations, maps
ISBN:9781439906361

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