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Direct linkMay, Matthew S. – Quarterly Journal of Speech, 2011
From 1909 to 1910, the public performance of soap-box oratory began to effect dramatic changes in the composition of migrant workers throughout the Pacific Northwest. Municipal authorities in Spokane attempted to curb the formation of a union of hobo orators by outlawing public speech-making within the city fire limits. The ensuing confrontation…
Descriptors: Historiography, Freedom of Speech, Migrants, Migrant Workers
Galvan, Frank H.; Ortiz, Daniel J.; Martinez, Victor; Bing, Eric G. – Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 2009
This article reports the characteristics of Latino day laborers who have sex with female commercial sex workers (CSWs). A sample of 450 day laborers in Los Angeles was used. Multivariate logistic regression was used to determine the association of independent variables with the likelihood of having sex with a CSW. Overall, 26% of the 450 day…
Descriptors: Laborers, Migrant Workers, Hispanic Americans, Males
Cleaveland, Carol – Social Work, 2010
Using semistructured interviews and participant observation, this two-year pilot study of male Mexican migrants in Freehold, New Jersey, explored how day laborers perceive their struggles to support families despite escalating anti-immigrant legislation at virtually all levels of government. In particular, the author looks at efforts by Mexican…
Descriptors: Participant Observation, Laborers, Immigration, Social Work
Littlefield, Alice, Ed.; Knack, Martha C., Ed. – 1996
This book reconsiders a largely ignored fact of North American Indian economic life--the place of wage labor in the culture and history of Native Americans. Case studies examine social networks of Native agricultural laborers, the decline of Native communities from self-sufficient producers to lower-class wage laborers, vocational education in…
Descriptors: Acculturation, American Indian Education, American Indian History, Case Studies
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
Download full textDepartment of Agriculture, Washington, DC. – 1967
Supporting data for the charts in "Age of Transition: Rural Youth in a Changing Society, Agriculture Handbook No. 347" are contained in this supplement. The tables are arranged in the same order as the charts and carry the same titles. The data reflect (1) the number of people in education and the labor force, (2) Indian and…
Descriptors: Age, American Indians, Child Welfare, College Students
