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Working Poor : Farmworkers in the United States /
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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Philadelphia :
Temple University Press,
1995.
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Table des matières:
- Ch. 1. The Formation of Agricultural Labor in the United States
- Ch. 2. Waves of Ethnicity: Immokalee, Florida
- Ch. 3. Migrant Workers on the Delmarva Peninsula : Maryland Tomato and Delaware Potato and Mixed-Vegetable Farms
- Ch. 4. Domestic Farmworkers in America's Heartland: Weslaco, Texas, and the Lower Rio Grande Valley
- Ch. 5. Labor Demand in Southwestern Michigan : Last Bastion of the Family Farm
- Ch. 6. Offshore Citizens as a Supply of Farm Labor : El Mani and Sabalos, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico
- Ch. 7. A Labor Force in Transition : Farmworkers in the New Jersey Nursery Industry
- Ch. 8. Northward out of Mexico : Migration Networks and Farm Labor Supply in Parlier, California
- Ch. 9. Characteristics of the Farm Labor Market : A Comparative Summary
- Ch. 10. The Poverty of Conventional Thought : Social Theory and the Working Poor
- Appendix : Methods, Sampling, and the Rationale for the Community Study Approach.