Titlebook: Latinx Farmworkers in the Eastern United States; Health, Safety, and Thomas A. Arcury,Sara A. Quandt Book 2020Latest edition Springer Natu

委派

The Health and Safety of Latinx Farmworkers in the Eastern United States: A Renewed Focus on Socialtice. It also argues that changes over the past decade in farm work, the characteristics of Latinx farmworkers, and the scientific literature require a revised volume addressing these issues. The organization of the chapters in the volume is outlined, and definitions of common terms (e.g., social ju

吹牛大王

Latinx Farmworkers and Farm Work in the Eastern United States: The Context for Health, Safety, and . This context includes geographic, agricultural, demographic, housing, cultural, and political dimensions. This chapter provides an overview of the current context for farmworkers in the eastern US and defines who is a farmworker for this volume. Although farmworkers in the eastern US became a larg

Annotate

Occupational Injury and Illness in Farmworkers in the Eastern United States,This chapter addresses key occupational health challenges encountered by farmworkers in the eastern United States (US). Some are common problems likely to be encountered by those working any commodity, while others are unique to the particular mix of crops produced in this region. This chapter revie

共栖

Stress and Distress: Mental Health Among Latinx Farmworkers in the Eastern United States, discrimination, and poor housing. This chapter is centered on a stress/distress model. This model posits that stressors are both structural and situational. Stress levels can be countered by positive or negative coping behaviors. Distress results from chronic, unmitigated stress and may contribute

Contend

Occupational Justice for Latinx Livestock Workers in the Eastern United States,tice for the farmworkers who care for them has been largely overlooked. This chapter comprehensively examines the health and safety issues faced by Latinx workers in the dairy, poultry, swine, and equine industries. As the size and scale of animal agriculture operations grows, farmers have become in

铺子

The Health of Women Farmworkers and Women in Farmworker Families in the Eastern United States,rmworkers. The proportion of farmworkers who are women has increased, nationally, over the past two decades, and is greater in the eastern United States than the country as a whole. Women in the farmworker community face social, economic, and ethnic discrimination that shapes their mental and physic

咽下

杀死

Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) and Other Community-Engaged Research with Latinx Farmsh language skills, experiences discrimination, and is at risk due to lack of documentation. Farmworkers are also often a “hidden” or “hard-to-reach” population for research. This chapter argues that community-based participatory research (CBPR) and other forms of community-engaged research provide

congenial

Farm Labor and the Struggle for Justice in the Eastern United States,to social justice faced by farmworkers, including organizing, advocacy, and service. It highlights national and state organizations that are involved in these efforts, paying particular attention to the role of workers, women, and allies in working for farmworker justice. It will contextualize the c

专横

Conclusions: An Updated Agenda for Farmworker Social Justice in the Eastern United States,acy to change a variety of policies that regulate farmwork and the lives of farmworkers. This chapter summarizes four themes common across the chapters of the book: (1) since 2009, changes have occurred in both the context for farmwork and the composition of the Latinx workforce; (2) information to