Harvest Of Confusion: Migrant Workers In U.s. Agriculture

Business & Money

Martin, Philip L.

Economics

CRC-Press

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.

Harvest Of Confusion

Unfulfilled Promise: Collective Bargaining In California Agriculture

The "plight of the California farmworker" has been the main theme of over 100 years of government reports, scholarly writings, and popular literature. Farmworkers were excluded from most of the 1930s legislation which regulated wages and working conditions and recognized that workplace disputes could best be settled by collective bargaining. Scho

The Endless Quest: Helping America's Farm Workers

Martin, David A.

A work which traces the development of US Government programmes designed to help migrant farm workers, showing how the programmes operate today and explaining why they are failing to remedy the problems they were designed to solve.

The Endless Quest

Essays by leading agricultural economists provide an introduction to California agriculture. Each chapter includes basic data, trends over time, and current issues. The project was supported by the Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics, which was established with a 1928 grant to analyze and propose policies to improve California agriculture.

California Agriculture: Dimensions and Issues

Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics

Managing Migration: The Promise of Cooperation (Program in Migration and Refugee Studies)

A growing share of the world's population lives in the 175 developing countries, while global income and wealth are increasingly concentrated in the 25 developed countries. The resulting migration from developing to developed countries is proving difficult to manage at national, regional, and local levels. Managing Migration presents the valuable results of the Cooperative Efforts to Manage Emigration project, a bottom-up effort to identify models and best practices for spurring economic development and respect for human rights in migrant countries of origin. Based on the research of experts from North America and Europe, authors Martin, Martin, and Weil discuss the challenges of managing international migration in the 21st century, present case studies in cooperative migration management, and offer recommendations to overcome the existing challenges. Concluding that there is no one-size-fits-all framework for managing migration, but that there are common elements of best-practice migration, Managing Migration is guaranteed to pique the interest of policy makers and practitioners involved in immigration as well as scholars of geography, anthropology, and international relations.

Politics & Social Sciences

Weil, Patrick

Martin, Susan F.

Social Sciences

Lexington Books

In 1975, after vigorous campaigning by the United Farm Workers union, the state of California passed the Agricultural Labor Relations Act (ALRA), a pioneering self-help strategy granting farm workers the right to organize into unions. A quarter century later, only a tiny percentage of farm workers in the state belong to unions, and wages remain less than half of those of nonfarm employees. Why did the ALRA fail? One of the nation's foremost authorities on farm workers here explores the reasons behind its unfulfilled promise.Philip L. Martin examines the key features of the farm labor market in California, including the shifting ethnicity of the worker pool and the evolution of the major unions, beginning with the Wobblies. Finally, he reviews the impact of immigration on agriculture in the state.Today, many states look to the California experience to assess whether the ALRA can serve as a model for their own farm labor relations laws. In Martin's view, California's efforts to grant rights to farm workers so that they can help themselves have failed because of continued unauthorized migration and the changing structure of farm employment. Martin argues that alternative policies would make farming profitable, raise farm worker wages, and still keep groceries affordable.

Promise Unfulfilled: Unions, Immigration, and the Farm Workers (Ilr Press Books)

ILR PRESS

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Martin, Philip L.. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Martin, Philip L.

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Martin, Philip L.. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Harvest Of Confusion: Migrant Workers In U.s. Agriculture

Harvest Of Confusion

Unfulfilled Promise: Collective Bargaining In California Agriculture

Unfulfilled Promise: Collective Bargaining In California Agriculture

The Endless Quest: Helping America's Farm Workers

The Endless Quest

California Agriculture: Dimensions and Issues

Managing Migration: The Promise of Cooperation (Program in Migration and Refugee Studies)

Managing Migration: The Promise of Cooperation (Program in Migration and Refugee Studies)

Promise Unfulfilled: Unions, Immigration, and the Farm Workers (Ilr Press Books)