TY - GEN T1 - Working poor : farmworkers in the United States A1 - Griffith, David, 1951- A2 - Kissam, Edward, 1943- A2 - Camposeco, Jerónimo LA - English PP - Philadelphia PB - Temple University Press YR - 1995 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocm47009621 AB - 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. OP - 332 NO - "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 CN - HD1525 .G75 1995eb SN - 0585365172 SN - 9780585365176 SN - 9781439906361 SN - 143990636X SN - 1566392381 SN - 156639239X SN - 9781566392396 SN - 9781566392389 KW - Agricultural laborers : United States. KW - Migrant agricultural laborers : United States. KW - Travailleurs agricoles : États-Unis. KW - Travailleurs agricoles migrants : États-Unis. KW - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS : Knowledge Capital. KW - Agricultural laborers KW - Migrant agricultural laborers KW - United States KW - Landarbeiter KW - Soziale Situation KW - Saisonarbeiter KW - Armut KW - USA ER -