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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Griffith, David, 1951-
Other Authors: Kissam, Edward, 1943-, Camposeco, Jerónimo
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1995.
Subjects:
Agricultural laborers > United States.
Migrant agricultural laborers > United States.
Travailleurs agricoles > États-Unis.
Travailleurs agricoles migrants > États-Unis.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Knowledge Capital.
Agricultural laborers
Migrant agricultural laborers
Landarbeiter
Soziale Situation
Saisonarbeiter
Armut
United States
USA
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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.
Item Description:"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
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiv, 332 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-324) and index.
ISBN:0585365172
9780585365176
9781439906361
143990636X

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