Download or read book A History of the Emergency Farm Labor Supply Program 1943 47 written by Wayne David Rasmussen and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A History of the Emergency Farm Labor Supply Program 1943 47 written by Wayne David Rasmussen and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Farm Labor Movement in the Midwest written by W. K. Barger and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-22 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC) was founded by Baldemar Velásquez in 1967 to challenge the poverty and powerlessness that confronted migrant farmworkers in the Midwest. This study documents FLOC's development through its first quarter century and analyzes its effectiveness as a social reform movement. Barger and Reza describe FLOC's founding as a sister organization of the United Farm Workers (UFW). They devote particular attention to FLOC's eight-year struggle (1978-1986) with the Campbell Soup company that led to three-way contracts for improved working conditions between FLOC, Campbell Soup, and Campbell's tomato and cucumber growers in Ohio and Michigan. This contract significantly changed the structure of agribusiness and instituted key reforms in American farm labor. The authors also address the processes of social change involved in FLOC actions. Their findings are based on extensive research among farmworkers, growers, and representatives of agribusiness, as well as personal involvement with FLOC leaders and supporters.

Download or read book Harvest Wobblies written by Greg Hall and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Increased Mechanization and the expansion of new markets transformed the face of American farming in the early decades of the twentieth century, especially in the American West. These changes demanded a new kind of agricultural worker--gone was the local farmhand, replaced by a cheap and temporary labor force of migrant and seasonal workers. Greg Hall's fascinating book analyzes how "harvest Wobblies," members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), organized these men, women, and sometimes children who had become so essential and yet so exploited on the farms of the West. Although harvest Wobblies worked in nearly all the western states, their stongholds were the Great Plains, California, and the Pacific Northwest, regions where harmers developed monocrop agriculture and where seasonal labor was indispensable come harvest time. Like their IWW brethren in logging camps and mines, the harvest Wobblies combined an effort to improve the lives of workers with harger revolutionary goals. Harvest Wobblies personified most of the indelible features of IWW membership: they were the militant casual laborers of the American West, riding the rails, living in hobo jungles, preaching revolution, and facing repression with innovative strategies, impassioned speech, humor, and song. Through trial and error, Wobbly organizers eventually implemented the idea of an industrial union in agriculture and helped the IWW to establish itself as a powerful force to be reckoned with by employers in the West. In tracing the rise and the eventual fall of the harvest Wobblies, Greg Hall examines the diverse and changing nature of the agricultural work force. He offers a social and cultural history of a union uniquely suited to organizing tens of thousands of migrant and seasonal workers. Harvest Wobblies will appeal to a broad audience of readers interested in labor history, the American West, U.S. agricultural history, and the history of the IWW.

Download or read book Migrant Workers And Minimum Wages written by Marc Linder and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1992-08-05 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers an integrated discussion of the economic, legal and philosophical principles underlying the exploitation of migrant labour in American culture. Historical case studies and accounts of current litigation provide a sense of the roots of the problem and ideas for an equitable resolution.

Download or read book Backgrounds of the War Farm Labor Problem written by United States. Bureau of Agricultural Economics and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Agricultural Labor in the 1980 s written by United States. Department of Agriculture. Agricultural Employment Work Group and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Survey of Agricultural Labor Conditions in Concordia Parish Louisiana written by United States. Farm security administration (Department of Agriculture) and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Mexican and Mexican American Farm Workers written by Juan L. Gonzales and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1985 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on in-depth interviews and extensive observations in the counties of Glenn, Solano, Napa, and Contra Costa in Northern California, this volume explores the daily lives and problems of Mexican and Mexican-American agricultural workers in their respective communities. The author draws on his discussion with community leaders, his participation in community organization meetings, and his volunteer work in community programs to present an overall picture of this unique farm-worker society and the ways in which individuals adapt to it.

Download or read book Braceros wetbacks and the Farm Labor Problem written by Otey M. Scruggs and published by Garland Publishing. This book was released on 1988 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Labor Markets And Agricultural Production written by Jan Douwe van der Ploeg and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-04-05 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the complex and often contradictory relationships between agricultural production and markets, Labor, Markets, and Agricultural Production examines the micro-macro linkages between farm production, farm labor issues, and the degree of autonomy or dependency vis-Ã -vis markets. By comparing the case of farmers in Peru, generally regarded as peripheral agricultural producers, with that of European farmers able to easily access the centralized markets of the EEC, Dr. van der Ploeg is able to draw general conclusions about the ongoing process of commoditization of agriculture and the roles farmers play in agrarian development.

Download or read book Farm Labor in Germany 1810 1945 written by Frieda Wunderlich and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive study of labor in German agriculture integrates historical, sociological, and legal facts and relates them to the general political and cultural currents in Germany from 1810 to the Nazi defeat in 1945. Originally published in 1961. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Download or read book Seasonal Farm Labor in the United States written by Harry Schwartz and published by Columbia University Studies in the History of American Agriculture, 11. This book was released on 1945 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the lives of seasonal farms workers with special emphasis on fruit and vegetable and sugar beet production. .

Download or read book Environmental Justice and Farm Labor written by Rebecca E. Berkey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-02-17 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Utilizing a model derived from literature on environmental justice overlaid with multiple scales of agriculture, Environmental Justice and Farm Labor provides key insights about laborers in agriculture in the United States. It addresses three main topics: (1) justice-related issues facing farmers and laborers on farms; (2) how history and policy have impacted them; and (3) the opportunities and leverage points for change in improving justice outcomes. It explores who labors in US agriculture and the justice-related issues facing these workers, including occupational injury and illness, lack of access to healthcare, substandard housing, hunger, low wages, issues pertaining to immigration, and the inability to organize. In addition, it assesses the impacts of labor safety, immigration and international policy, and in particular the effects of organic and fair trade certification. Two detailed case studies, one based on conventional agriculture in Florida and the other on organic agriculture in the Northeast, highlight the interrelated but unique challenges facing those who labor in the different sectors of this complex agricultural system. Finally, it touches on justice claims and the role of grassroots activism in improving justice outcomes by highlighting organizations operating at multiple scales to contribute to the livelihood of farmers and laborers in the different areas of agriculture.

Download or read book Agricultural Labor in the United States written by National Agricultural Library (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An address upon the Conditiion of the agricultural labourer written by Henry TUCKER (of Bouston, Berkshire.) and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Farm Workers Agribusiness and the State written by Linda C. Majka and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.