The dynamics of hired farm labour : constraints and community responses / edited by Jill L. Findeis, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology and Population Research Institute, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA, Ann M. Vandeman,US Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, Washington, DC, USA, Janelle M. Larson, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA and Jack L. Runyan, US Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, Washington, DC, USA.
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TextPublisher: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2002Copyright date: 2002Description: 1 online resource (xii, 268 pages) : illustrations, chartsContent type: - text
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- online resource
- Migrant agricultural laborers -- United States
- Migrant agricultural laborers -- Canada
- Migrant agricultural laborers -- Australia
- Agricultural laborers -- Canada
- Agricultural laborers -- United States
- Agricultural laborers -- Australia
- Agricultural Economics
- Labour and Employment
- Community Participation and Development, (New March 2000)
- Social Psychology and Social Anthropology, (New March 2000)
- Occupational Health and Safety
- Agricultural manpower
- Agricultural production
- Community involvement
- Constraints
- Employment
- Farm workers
- Hired labour
- Sociology of work
- Trends
- Working conditions
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- EE900
- UU450
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This book focuses on labour used in agriculture in the USA, Canada and Australia. Changes in the hired farm workforce, area studies and community impacts and responses, and the need for community services, are discussed. It is divided into 3 sections. Section 1 provides an overview of changes in agricultural employment in developed countries, trends in the farm workforce, and the effects of technology on labour use in production agriculture. Section 2 presents a series of studies from different disciplinary perspectives that focus on the issues faced by farm labourers, their employers and local communities. Section 3 examines the health and safety of the farm worker population. The book concludes with a comparison of 2 of the major data sources used. It consists of 18 chapters and is indexed.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Hired farm labour adjustments and constraints / Jill L. Findeis -- Examining farm worker images / Susan Gabbard, Alicia Fernandez-Mott and Daniel Carroll -- Changes in the labour intensity of agriculture : a comparison of California, Florida, and the USA / Wallace E. Huffman -- Family settlement and technological change in labour-intensive US agriculture / Richard Mines -- Demographics, income and choices : seasonal farm workers in southwest Florida / Fritz Roka and Robert D. Emerson -- Management of Hispanic employees on New York dairy farms : a survey of farm managers / Thomas R. Maloney -- The dynamics of the Washington farm labour market / Dawn Thilmany and Michael D. Miller -- The economic impact of migrant farm workers on southeastern Michigan / Rene P. Rosenbaum -- Community response to the introduction of Hispanic migrant agricultural workers into central Kentucky / Beckie Mullin Denton -- Does experience as a US farm worker provide returns in the Mexican labour market? / Steven S. Zahniser and Michael J. Greenwood -- Income distribution and farm labour markets / Robert D. Emerson and Fritz Roka -- Rural deprivation and farm worker deprivation : who's at the 'sharp end' of rural inequalities in Australia? / Jim McAllister -- The role of the state in Manitoba farm labour force formation / Avis Mysyk -- Cycles of deepening poverty in rural California : the San Joaquin Valley towns of McFarland and Farmersville / Fred Krissman -- Safety and health attitudes and practices in migrant farm labour families / Robert C. Seiz and Eleanor Pepi Downey -- Hired farm labour and health insurance coverage / Paul E. McNamara and Christine K. Ranney -- Seasonal migration : farm workers in the Alaska fishing and seafood industry and the impact on health care systems in communities where they work / Patricia Hennessy -- A comparison of data sources for hired farm labor research : the NAWS and the CPS /Janelle M. Larson, Jill L. Findeis, Hema Swaminathan and Qiuyan Wang.
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