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Sawchuk, Peter H.; Kempf, Arlo – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2008
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to contextualise historically transnational labour experiences within guest worker programs in Canada and to provide a conceptual foundation for analysing work, learning and living relations with special attention to agricultural workers. Design/methodology/approach: The research is based on a critical review…
Descriptors: Employment Patterns, Agricultural Laborers, Foreign Countries, Foreign Workers
Szymanski, Albert – Aztlan--International Journal of Chicano Studies Research, 1978
Latin Americans are displacing Blacks in the most menial and low paying positions as a rapidly increasing percentage of the various categories of dirty work are being occupied by Spanish speaking people. As Blacks move into less menial and better paying positions, a new underclass of Spanish speaking immigrant workers is being created. (Author/NQ)
Descriptors: Economics, Employment Patterns, Employment Statistics, Foreign Workers
Cortes, Michael E. – 1974
After surveying the vocational rehabilitation (VR) needs of disabled migratory and seasonal farmworkers in the U.S., a national plan to meet those needs was developed, in cooperation with designated state agencies. A random cluster sample of farmworkers was interviewed to determine service needs. Additional planning data were gathered by…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Agricultural Laborers, Attitudes, Blacks
Whitener, Leslie A. – 1982
Using data obtained in December 1979 from the biennial Hired Farm Working Force Survey supplement of the Current Population Survey, case weights were applied to obtain a sample of 149 migrant farmworker case studies (selected from an estimated 217,000 migrant farmworkers) to ascertain the agricultural attachment level of migrant farmworkers in…
Descriptors: Age, Agricultural Laborers, Blacks, Census Figures
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Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Washington, DC. – 1980
This document is the first of two volumes of tables summarizing the data obtained from the Employer Information Reports (EEO-1) for 1978. Figures were obtained from a total of 39,000 employers with 36 million employees. These figures cover about half of all private, non-farm workers, as compared to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' annual average…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, American Indians, Asian Americans, Blacks
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Washington, DC. – 1980
This document is the second of two volumes of tables summarizing the data obtained from the Employer Information Reports (EEO-1) for 1978. Figures were obtained from a total of 39,000 employers with 36 million employees. These figures cover about half of all private, non-farm workers, as compared to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' annual average…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, American Indians, Asian Americans, Blacks