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...

وصف كامل

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
المؤلف الرئيسي: Griffith, David, 1951-
مؤلفون آخرون: Kissam, Edward, 1943-, Camposeco, Jerónimo
التنسيق: Licensed eBooks
اللغة:الإنجليزية
منشور في: Philadelphia : Temple University Press 1995.
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt1bw1kbn
الوصف
الملخص: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.
وصف المادة:"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
وصف مادي:1 online resource (xiv, 332 pages) : illustrations, maps
بيبلوغرافيا:Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-324) and index.
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