书目名称 | On the Road for Work |
副标题 | Migratory Workers on |
编辑 | G. Thomas-Lycklama à Nijeholt |
视频video | http://file.papertrans.cn/702/701278/701278.mp4 |
丛书名称 | Institute of Social Studies Series on Development of Societies |
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描述 | Migratory farm workers provide the extra hands that are so badly needed during the planting and harvest season in the United States. Although these workers have been essential to the American agricultural system for more than a hundred years, our knowledge of them is limited and quite fragmentary; it can be divided roughly into two types of information. On the one hand, we have the statistical data collected by various censuses and the data gathered by agricultural econ omists to study the supply of and demand for farm labor. The economic aspects of farm labor generally predominate in such material. On the other, we have the scientific studies and journalistic descriptions that report on migratory farm by using a qualitative approach. The social scientists and journalists who workers have compiled these reports lived in the labor camps and have vividly described the dismal and oppressive conditions these workers must endure. The drawback of the first type of data is that its orientation to economic problems makes it too superficial and one-sided. It fails to interrelate the diverse economic factors affecting the lives and work of all farm workers, and conse quently presents a dis |
出版日期 | Book 1980 |
关键词 | USA; agriculture; depression; development; earnings; education; employment; information; insurance; migrants; |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8757-9 |
isbn_softcover | 978-94-009-8759-3 |
isbn_ebook | 978-94-009-8757-9 |
copyright | Martinus Nijhoff Publishing 1980 |