Author: Ellen C. KearnsPublisher: Greenwood Press
ISBN: 9781570181085
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 1756
Book Description
The Fair Labor Standards Act
Author: Ellen C. KearnsPublisher: Greenwood Press
ISBN: 9781570181085
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 1756
Book Description
Wage Labour And Unfreedom In Agriculture
Author: V K RamachandranPublisher:
ISBN: 9780009717550
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Agriculture, Forestry, and Fishing Research at NIOSH
Author: Institute of MedicinePublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309177693
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
The agriculture, forestry, and fishing sectors are the cornerstone of industries that produce food, fiber, and biofuel. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) conducts research in order to improve worker safety and health in these sectors. This National Research Council book reviews the NIOSH Agriculture, Forestry, and Fishing Program to evaluate the 1) relevance of its work to improvements in occupational safety and health and 2) the impact of research in reducing workplace illnesses and injuries. The assessment reveals that the program has made meaningful contributions to improving worker safety and health in these fields. To enhance the relevance and impact of its work and fulfill its mission, the NIOSH Agriculture, Forestry, and Fishing Program should provide national leadership, coordination of research, and activities to transfer findings, technologies, and information into practice. The program will also benefit from establishing strategic goals and implementing a comprehensive surveillance system in order to better identify and track worker populations at risk.
I Am Not a Tractor!
Author: Susan L. MarquisPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501714309
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
I Am Not a Tractor! celebrates the courage, vision, and creativity of the farmworkers and community leaders who have transformed one of the worst agricultural situations in the United States into one of the best. Susan L. Marquis highlights past abuses workers suffered in Florida’s tomato fields: toxic pesticide exposure, beatings, sexual assault, rampant wage theft, and even, astonishingly, modern-day slavery. Marquis unveils how, even without new legislation, regulation, or government participation, these farmworkers have dramatically improved their work conditions. Marquis credits this success to the immigrants from Mexico, Haiti, and Guatemala who formed the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, a neuroscience major who takes great pride in the watermelon crew he runs, a leading farmer/grower who was once homeless, and a retired New York State judge who volunteered to stuff envelopes and ended up building a groundbreaking institution. Through the Fair Food Program that they have developed, fought for, and implemented, these people have changed the lives of more than thirty thousand field workers. I Am Not a Tractor! offers a range of solutions to a problem that is rooted in our nation’s slave history and that is worsened by ongoing conflict over immigration.
Chasing the Harvest
Author: Gabriel ThompsonPublisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1786632209
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Lives from an invisible community—the migrant farmworkers of the United States The Grapes of Wrath brought national attention to the condition of California’s migrant farmworkers in the 1930s. Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers’ grape and lettuce boycotts captured the imagination of the United States in the 1960s and ’70s. Yet today, the stories of the more than 800,000 men, women, and children working in California’s fields—one third of the nation’s agricultural work force—are rarely heard, despite the persistence of wage theft, dangerous working conditions, and uncertain futures. This book of oral histories makes the reality of farm work visible in accounts of hardship, bravery, solidarity, and creativity in California’s fields, as real people struggle to win new opportunities for future generations. Among the narrators: Maricruz, a single mother fired from a packing plant after filing a sexual assault complaint against her supervisor. Roberto, a vineyard laborer in the scorching Coachella Valley who became an advocate for more humane working conditions after his teenage son almost died of heatstroke. Oscar, an elementary school teacher in Salinas who wants to free his students from a life in the fields, the fate that once awaited him as a child.
Labor Management in Agriculture
Author: Gregory Encina BillikopfPublisher: University of California Agricultu Agricultural Issues Cente
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Circular A, Agricultural Employer's Tax Guide
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Oregon Blue Book
Author: Oregon. Office of the Secretary of StatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Oregon
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Hired Farm Workers
Author: United States. Employment Standards AdministrationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural wages
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Promise Unfulfilled
Author: Philip L. MartinPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801441868
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Prologue--what went wrong? -- California farm labor -- History of farm labor -- Farm worker unions -- The ALRA, ALRB, and elections -- Employer and union unfair labor practices -- Strikes and remedies -- Nontraditional farm worker unions -- Immigration and agriculture.