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Popular account of the economic implications and social conditions of rural migrant workers in USA. Rural workers. Illustrations.
This book is intended as the first building block to assist in the development of realistic solutions for migrant farmworker issues in the U.S. It analyzes the vast and diverse data and literature which generate the confusion over the number and distribution of farmworkers who work in agriculture.
Discusses the history and economics of migrant labor, describes the impact of the Great Depression, and recounts the efforts of migrant workers to improve their lot through boycotts and strikes
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Case study of working conditions and living conditions of rural workers in the North Eastern states of the USA illustrating the hopelessness, poverty and powerlessness of migrant seasonal workers from the southern states - covers squalid housing quarters, inadequate sanitation services, interpersonal and human relations, personal behaviour, leisure time, employees attitudes towards supervisors, trade unionisation, problems with children and youth, etc. One-page bibliography.
For the past 40 years, farmers in Ontario and other provinces have been meeting some of their seasonal labour needs by hiring temporary workers from Caribbean countries and, since 1974, from Mexico under the Canadian Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (CSAWP).