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J. Luke Irwin – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The transforming landscape of education and employment in the United States makes it more difficult for workers to maintain living wage jobs with benefits, threatening their livelihood and future employment prospects as previous skills become obsolete. Employers are also struggling to hire and retain skilled workers. Regardless of long-term…
Descriptors: Labor Force, Job Skills, Skill Development, Employment Potential
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Findlay, Allan; McCollum, David – Journal of Rural Studies, 2013
Migrant labour has been particularly significant in the British rural agribusiness sector, where employers often struggle to source labour regardless of economic conditions. While most research on East-Central European migration has focused on the experiences of members of the migrant community, this paper is one of a small number of studies that…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Foreign Countries, Industry, Corporations
Conde, Carlos D. – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2007
Illegal migrants are a nonentity in the United States, and, to a certain extent, many prefer it that way. They exist in society's netherworld, living under their own code of survival by whatever means they can, since the alternatives are less inviting. Mostly, they struggle. People take advantage of them at every opportunity because they are…
Descriptors: Migrants, Slavery, Labor Force, Undocumented Immigrants