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Download full textWashington State Dept. of Employment Security, Olympia. – 1971
The report contains information on significant developments in the 1971 Washington State Farm Labor and Rural Manpower Program. Part I, the Annual Summary, recommends that state agencies should devote more effort to the Annual Worker Plan and that farm placement personnel should try to advise persons who have job commitments of any delays in the…
Descriptors: Agribusiness, Agricultural Laborers, Annual Reports, Community Development
Washington State Dept. of Employment Security, Olympia. – 1972
The report contains information on significant developments in the 1972 Washington State Farm Labor and Rural Manpower Program. Part I, the Annual Summary, recommends that farm labor programs be designed to insure an adequate number of efficient workers and that a means be developed to prolong employment periods for the worker, thus reducing…
Descriptors: Agribusiness, Agricultural Laborers, Annual Reports, Community Development
Louisiana State Dept. of Employment Security, Baton Rouge – 1974
During 1974, the Rural Manpower Service provided a comprehensive program of service to all agricultural workers and employers in both rural and urban areas. This program was accomplished through employer relations and applicant registration programs, placement services, promotion of training programs, counseling and testing programs, collection…
Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, Annual Reports, Community Development, Economic Development
Louisiana State Dept. of Employment Security, Baton Rouge – 1976
Stressing the provision of services to migrants and seasonal farmworkers in keeping with the U.S. District Court Order requiring and quantitatively proportionate service to this labor segment, the Rural Manpower Service provided a comprehensive program of service to all rural elements in Louisiana. Working in close conjunction with the Service was…
Descriptors: Agribusiness, Agricultural Laborers, Agricultural Trends, Annual Reports
Louisiana State Dept. of Employment Security, Baton Rouge – 1973
The Rural Manpower Service Section of the Louisiana State Department of Employment Security, responsible for providing services to agricultural and rural nonagricultural populations, implemented the Secretary of Labor's 13-Point Program. Providing manpower services to migrants, rural residents, and employers was emphasized. During 1973, 105.8…
Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, Annual Reports, Community Development, Economic Development
WOOD, MRS. WILSON W. – 1967
THIS DOCUMENT, WRITTEN IN BOTH SPANISH AND ENGLISH, CONTAINS THE PROCEEDINGS OF A CONFERENCE CONCERNING MIGRANT PROBLEMS. SPECIAL REPORTS ARE MADE ON THE HISTORY OF THE CONFERENCE, THE CURRENT SITUATION IN CALIFORNIA AGRICULTURE, AND THE PLIGHT OF THE CALIFORNIA AGRICULTURAL LABORER. REPORTS AND RECOMMENDATIONS ARE PRESENTED FROM VARIOUS WORKSHOP…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Agricultural Laborers, Agriculture, Committees
St. John, Edward – 1974
Between May 1969 and October 1973, the University of California, Davis, was involved in a series of research and service projects designed to better the condition of single-male farmworkers in Stockton and Sacramento. These communities, known locally as skid row, were destroyed as a result of urban renewal. The projects were separated into 2…
Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, Alcoholism, Community Development, Community Surveys
Auburn Univ., AL. Agricultural Experiment Station. – 1970
Twenty-seven papers relating to rural sociology which were presented at the 1970 annual meeting of the Association of Southern Agricultural Workers are compiled in this volume. Areas emphasized are the educational and occupational aspirations of rural youth, community development and regional planning, and the racial composition and…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Agricultural Laborers, Attitudes, Community Development
Washington State Dept. of Employment Security, Olympia. – 1973
The annual report of the Rural Manpower Program, Employment Service Division, contains narrative and statistical data that describe important developments in Washington State during 1973. In terms of man-months of labor, rural counties provided less than 25% of the total seasonal farm employment in 1973, while urban Yakima County alone provided…
Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, Annual Reports, Community Development, Economic Development
Home Education Livelihood Program, Albuquerque, NM. – 1965
THE HOME EDUCATION LIVELIHOOD PROGRAM (HELP) IN NEW MEXICO PROVIDES EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES TO ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED SPANISH AMERICAN AND MEXICAN AMERICAN AGRICULTURAL WORKERS. THE BASIS OF THE HELP PROGRAM IS ADULT AND FAMILY EDUCATION INCLUDING BASIC CHILD CARE AND REMEDIAL INSTRUCTION. HELP PRODUCES SOME OF ITS OWN INSTRUCTIONAL…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Agricultural Laborers, American Indians, Basic Skills
Auret, Diana – 2000
This book documents the history, successes, and failures of Save the Children's farmworker program in Zimbabwe, 1981-98. The report explores workers' past and present living and working conditions on commercial farms and describes how the program promoted a progression from workers with a migrant mentality to the building of functional…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Access to Health Care, Adult Basic Education, Agricultural Laborers
Pillai, K. Sivadasan – 1978
An attempt to integrate socioeconomic development with literacy through nonformal education programs in Kerala, India, involved illiterate and semi-literate adults (1050 men, 450 women) in two pilot literacy projects organized by the Sanghom (library organization), Mitraniketan, and state government. Two literacy primers were developed, using an…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Basic Education, Adult Vocational Education, Age Differences
