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Author | : J. Edward Taylor |
Publisher | : Academic Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2018-11-29 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0128172681 |
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
Author | : W. K. Barger |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2010-07-22 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0292792123 |
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.
Author | : Carey McWilliams |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 365 |
Release | : 2000-04-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520925181 |
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
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Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 1963 |
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Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Migratory Labor |
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Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Agricultural laborers |
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Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee to Investigate Farm Labor and Conditions in the West |
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Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 1943 |
Genre | : Agricultural laborers |
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Author | : Wayne David Rasmussen |
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Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1951 |
Genre | : Agricultural laborers |
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Author | : National Advisory Committee on Farm Labor (U.S.) |
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Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 1959 |
Genre | : Agricultural laborers |
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Author | : Linda C. Majka |
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Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Agricultural laborers |
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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.
Author | : Wayne David Rasmussen |
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Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 1951 |
Genre | : Agricultural laborers |
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