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Download full textRunyan, Jack L. – 1998
Analyses of data from the 1996 Current Population Survey earnings microdata file examined demographic, earnings, and geographic characteristics of U.S. hired farmworkers. Approximately 906,000 persons aged 15 and older were employed as hired farmworkers each week in 1996, and an additional 72,000 persons were hired as farmworkers as a second job.…
Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, Citizenship, Demography, Educational Attainment
Peer reviewedTolnay, Stewart E. – Rural Sociology, 1995
Analysis of public-use samples of 1910 and 1940 censuses of the rural South revealed significant variation in fertility by social class for blacks in both years and for whites in 1940. Farm laborers of both races reported the lowest fertility and steepest declines over the period. A woman's education was negatively related to fertility in all…
Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, Birth Rate, Blacks, Educational Attainment
Goss, Kevin F.; Rodefeld, Richard D. – 1978
Farming has undergone substantial changes in both economic and social structure in the past 40 years; these changes have affected the larger society with population changes in rural, nonmetropolitan areas. Seeking to explore the relationships between changes in farming and changes in place population for Michigan from 1930 to 1970, six variables…
Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, Farmers, Migration, Population Distribution
Peer reviewedde Janvry, Alain; And Others – International Labour Review, 1989
Discusses the status of rural labor and the performance of labor markets in Latin American agriculture. Points out the rapidly declining share of agriculture in the total labor force, weak capacity for creating nonagricultural employment, and rapidly increasing migration to towns. (JOW)
Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, Agriculture, Employment Opportunities, Employment Patterns
Mason, Bert; Alvarado, Andrew; Palacio, Robert – 1996
This paper examines the social and economic impacts of Mexican immigration on Fresno (California). Since the early 1980s, immigration to California has been dominated by illegal immigrants from rural Mexico seeking agricultural jobs in rural California. This rural migration impacts urban centers in agricultural regions; these impacts lag the…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Agricultural Laborers, Community Change, Educational Attainment
Reul, Myrtle R. – 1974
Migration is not a new concept. All through America's history, there has been a push and pull related to population movement. Most Americans have moved several times and from one geographical region to another. Others have moved only a short distance from their birthplace or perhaps not at all. U.S. census information shows that each year nearly…
Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, American Indians, Black Population Trends, Demography
PDF pending restorationHuss, John D.; And Others – 1977
Arizona's migrant farmworker population was examined to determine the recent changes in its demographic characteristics, and changes in worker characteristics that could be anticipated by 1980 and their implications for educative and supportive services to migrant children between 1977 and 1980. Information was also obtained on migrant student…
Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, Comparative Analysis, Demography, Economic Development
