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Springer, Andrew E.; King, Yesmel; Field, Craig; Ojeda, Martha Alicia; Brown, Louis; Monforton, Celeste; Hernandez, Rodrigo; Diamond, Pamela; Atkinson, John; Fernández-Esquer, Maria Eugenia – Health Education Journal, 2023
Objective: Latino day labourers (LDLs) in the USA are at increased risk for non-fatal and fatal occupational injuries, which are compounded by stressors that include wage theft, job insecurity and discrimination. This paper describes the development and refinement of Vales+Tú (You are Worthy of More), an injury prevention programme currently being…
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, Laborers, Labor Conditions, Labor Problems
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Kim, Joon K. – Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, 2012
During the interwar period, California's labor-intensive agriculture transitioned from reliance on diverse immigrants to preference for Mexicans. Political movements to restrict immigration, the Great Depression, and labor unrest compelled farm employers to search for labor that could be used flexibly and deported easily. To achieve this…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Agriculture, Agricultural Laborers, Foreign Countries
Bradwin, Edmund W. – 1972
The book describes working and living conditions among migrant laborers in the northern Canadian work camps, 1903-1914. The early chapters sketch the development of Canada's transportation systems from the mid-19th century as the setting for the development of labor camps, and describe the contract system in railway construction. The heart of the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Educational Needs, Ethnic Groups, Foreign Countries
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Wynne, Lewis N. – Phylon, 1981
Following the removal of the Freedman's Bureau and failure of labor recruitment efforts targeted to Chinese and European immigrants, the practices of sharecropping, tenant farming, and the hiring of convict labor replaced slave labor in the South's postbellum agricultural economy. Lack of minimal economic power among freed Blacks resulted in slave…
Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, Blacks, Civil Rights, Economic Change
METZLER, WILLIAM H. – 1966
SPECIALIZATION IN THE CROPS BEST ADAPTED TO THE LOCAL AREA IS SEEN AS A HIGHLY PRODUCTIVE SYSTEM OF AGRICULTURE, BUT BY CREATING THE NEED FOR LARGE NUMBERS OF WORKERS FOR SHORT PERIODS OF TIME, IT CAUSES UNEMPLOYMENT AND MIGRATION. A SURVEY OF FRUIT AND VEGETABLE WORKERS IN STANISLAUS COUNTY, CALIFORNIA IN 1962-63 REVEALS--(1) THEIR EARNINGS ARE…
Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, Braceros, Ethnic Groups, Farm Labor