Publication Date
| In 2025 | 2 |
| Since 2024 | 12 |
| Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 33 |
| Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 71 |
| Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 180 |
Descriptor
| Agricultural Laborers | 668 |
| Migrant Workers | 294 |
| Laborers | 229 |
| Seasonal Laborers | 189 |
| Farm Labor | 148 |
| Foreign Countries | 132 |
| Mexican Americans | 122 |
| Migrants | 110 |
| Employment Patterns | 91 |
| Migrant Education | 91 |
| Rural Areas | 90 |
| More ▼ | |
Source
Author
| Smith, Leslie Whitener | 7 |
| Runyan, Jack L. | 6 |
| Organista, Kurt C. | 5 |
| Pierce, James M. | 5 |
| Arcury, Thomas A. | 4 |
| Banks, Vera J. | 4 |
| Batman, Kangan | 4 |
| Chi, Peter S. K. | 4 |
| Henderson, Robyn | 4 |
| McElroy, Robert C. | 4 |
| Quandt, Sara A. | 4 |
| More ▼ | |
Publication Type
Education Level
Audience
| Practitioners | 21 |
| Students | 17 |
| Teachers | 16 |
| Policymakers | 12 |
| Researchers | 8 |
| Administrators | 3 |
| Community | 3 |
| Parents | 1 |
| Support Staff | 1 |
Location
| California | 85 |
| New York | 29 |
| United States | 29 |
| Texas | 27 |
| Florida | 22 |
| Mexico | 19 |
| Michigan | 17 |
| Canada | 14 |
| Colorado | 14 |
| Louisiana | 13 |
| Australia | 12 |
| More ▼ | |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
| General Aptitude Test Battery | 6 |
| Adult Performance Level | 1 |
| Dynamic Indicators of Basic… | 1 |
| Florida Comprehensive… | 1 |
| General Educational… | 1 |
| Stanford Achievement Tests | 1 |
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Peer reviewedReese, Lyn – OAH Magazine of History, 1988
Covers women's labor history in the United States and in industrialized nations from the early 1800s to the present. Provides primary source documents from New England workers in the 1830s and 1840s and from women workers on global assembly lines in the 1980s. Includes discussion questions. (LS)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Developing Nations, Employed Women, Females
Piekarski, Thomas J., Comp. – 1988
This guidebook provides materials for a Rural Enterprise Development course for farmers, agricultural workers, spouses, and farm families in Rock and Green Counties, Wisconsin. Course goals are to help the user discover career and life options and develop job seeking skills. The guidebook is intended for use as a notebook or journal to record…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adults, Agricultural Laborers, Aptitude Tests
Schumacher, Yvonne; And Others – 1983
Based on facts gathered in 1982-83 and prepared to inform the United States Commission on Civil Rights of the status of migrants in the State of Maryland, this report summarizes findings about housing, health and safety, access/communication/transportation, employment issues, and education. The summary of housing conditions notes that more than…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Civil Rights, Equal Protection, Health Needs
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
Download full textTINNEY, MILTON W. – 1965
A STUDY OF MIGRANT WORKERS IN THE 5 SOUTHWESTERN OKLAHOMA COUNTIES OF GREER, HARMON, JACKSON, KIOWA, AND TILLMAN WAS CONDUCTED IN 1964 BY THE OKLAHOMA STATE EMPLOYMENT SERVICE. APPROXIMATELY 15,000 AGRICULTURAL MIGRANTS COME INTO THE AREA EACH YEAR. THE SURVEY FOUND THAT THESE PEOPLE WERE PREDOMINATELY SPANISH-SPEAKING FROM TEXAS, EARNED LESS THAN…
Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, Agricultural Occupations, Child Labor, Educationally Disadvantaged
ERICKSON, JOHN – 1968
ONE METHOD OF ATTEMPTING TO MEET THE EDUCATIONAL NEEDS OF ECONOMICALLY OR CULTURALLY DISADVANTAGED STUDENTS IS THROUGH A COMMUNITY LIAISON PROGRAM UTILIZING COMMUNITY AIDES TO INFORM THE COMMUNITY OF THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE SCHOOL AND AVAILABLE EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES, TO INFORM THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM OF THE EDUCATIONAL NEEDS OF THE COMMUNITY,…
Descriptors: Ancillary Services, Auxiliary Laborers, Communications, Community Influence
Department 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
Klumpp, Edward L.; And Others – 1976
In order to provide the Florida Migratory Child Compensatory Education Program with information required for determining whether and to what extent the educational needs of migrant children were being met by the present educational programs, eight study tasks were implemented. These tasks involved looking at the changes and characteristics of the…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Affective Behavior, Agricultural Laborers, Blacks
Martinez, Art; Gonis, Marla – 1992
The High School Equivalency Program (HEP) at Milwaukee Area Technical College, in Wisconsin, is designed to help migrant and seasonal farmworkers and their dependents obtain General Educational Development (GED) degrees, and gain employment or enroll in postsecondary educational programs outside of the agricultural setting. Before enrolling in…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Career Counseling, Community Colleges, Competency Based Education
Duarte, E. D. – 1983
During its first year of operation in 1982-83, the College Assistance Migrant Program (CAMP) at Oregon State University (OSU) fully achieved 19 of its 20 goals. The program to recruit and assist migrant seasonal farmworker students in higher education faced three major problems during the year: late organization, OSU's rigorous academic demands,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Access to Education, Career Awareness, Delivery Systems
Carter, Michael A. – 1975
The world of work is composed of contradictory conditions which schooling tries to mediate through a reproductive process. The present organization of production based on wage-labor is inherently self-contradictory in that the interests of management and labor are directly opposed. School prepares individuals to deal with the types of peer…
Descriptors: Educational Background, Educational Change, Educational Theories, Employee Attitudes
PDF pending restorationBeach, David P. – 1978
Phase II of a two-part project, this study was conducted in Missouri to develop a quantitative competency matrix for each of the vocational and technical education service areas represented in Missouri. (A description of both phases of the project appears in CE 018 918.) After a literature search identified the affective work competencies desired…
Descriptors: Affective Measures, Affective Objectives, Differences, Educational Objectives
Stokes, Bruce – 1978
The world economic situation is beset by growing worker dissatisfaction, slowing economic growth, and rising energy and resource costs. A partial solution to these problems may be worker participation in management and ownership. As production has become more dehumanized and workers have become increasingly dissatisfied and alienated, the quality…
Descriptors: Administration, Cooperatives, Decision Making, Economic Climate
Erlanger, Steven J. – 1975
This monograph focuses on the working class in Boston during 1775, the period just before the American Revolution. Seven sections describe Boston's geographical and political background; working conditions, employment, and controls; income by industry and occupation; standards of living; social life; mobility and the situation of minorities; and…
Descriptors: Blacks, Citizen Role, Colonial History (United States), Economic Factors
WILLIAMS, J. EARL – 1966
SUBSTANTIAL POVERTY IN RURAL AREAS HAS BEEN CAUSED BY UNEMPLOYMENT DUE TO THE TECHNOLOGICAL REVOLUTION WHICH HAS MECHANIZED AGRICULTURAL OCCUPATIONS WHICH HAVE BEEN THE EXCLUSIVE DOMAIN OF THE FARM LABORER. A WELL-ORGANIZED COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM PROVIDES A MEANS OF EFFECTIVELY COMBATING THE RATE OF UNEMPLOYMENT WHICH IS ESPECIALLY HIGH AMONG…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Agricultural Laborers, Community Action, Cooperative Programs
