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 distorted and incomplete picture of
migratory farm worker life. Also, because the migratory farm
workers are quite elusive and usually keep a low profIle, they are
often underrepresented in such data. The data gathered by using
qualitative methods have the major disadvantage of being quite
limited in scope."
General
Imprint: |
Kluwer Academic Publishers
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Institute of Social Studies Series on Development of Societies, 7 |
Release date: |
June 1980 |
First published: |
1980 |
Authors: |
G. Thomas-Lycklama-Nijeholt
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Dimensions: |
235 x 155 x 14mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
|
Pages: |
212 |
Edition: |
1980 ed. |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-89838-043-9 |
Categories: |
Books >
Business & Economics >
Economics >
General
|
LSN: |
0-89838-043-X |
Barcode: |
9780898380439 |
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