附註:"All photographs dated between 1937 and 1940 are from the U.S. Farm Security Administration Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress."--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-324) and index.
Ch. 1. The Formation of Agricultural Labor in the United States -- Ch. 2. Waves of Ethnicity: Immokalee, Florida -- Ch. 3. Migrant Workers on the Delmarva Peninsula : Maryland Tomato and Delaware Potato and Mixed-Vegetable Farms -- Ch. 4. Domestic Farmworkers in America's Heartland: Weslaco, Texas, and the Lower Rio Grande Valley -- Ch. 5. Labor Demand in Southwestern Michigan : Last Bastion of the Family Farm -- Ch. 6. Offshore Citizens as a Supply of Farm Labor : El Mani and Sabalos, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico -- Ch. 7. A Labor Force in Transition : Farmworkers in the New Jersey Nursery Industry -- Ch. 8. Northward out of Mexico : Migration Networks and Farm Labor Supply in Parlier, California -- Ch. 9. Characteristics of the Farm Labor Market : A Comparative Summary -- Ch. 10. The Poverty of Conventional Thought : Social Theory and the Working Poor -- Appendix : Methods, Sampling, and the Rationale for the Community Study Approach.
摘要:Working Poor investigates the lives and working conditions of migrant farmworkers in seven regions of the United States. The community studies in this volume include descriptions and analyses of the low-income neighborhoods of Immokalee, Florida; Parlier, California; Weslaco, Texas; and Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, where growers and farm contractors put immigrants to work in fruit and vegetable harvests. The authors link farmworker communities that have winter growing seasons with summer labor supply demand regions in the northern United States, in particular south-western Michigan, N.
