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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Xehetasun bibliografikoak
Egile nagusia: Griffith, David, 1951-
Beste egile batzuk: Kissam, Edward, 1943-, Camposeco, Jerónimo
Formatua: Licensed eBooks
Hizkuntza:ingelesa
Argitaratua: Philadelphia : Temple University Press 1995.
Sarrera elektronikoa:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt1bw1kbn
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Gaia: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.
Alearen deskribapena:"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
Deskribapen fisikoa:1 online resource (xiv, 332 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliografia:Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-324) and index.
ISBN:0585365172
9780585365176
9781439906361
143990636X
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9781566392396
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