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OverviewWorking 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 Mayag\u00fcez, 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, New Jersey, and the Delmarva Peninsula of Maryland and Delaware. The authors investigate ethnic succession in the farm labor market and the ways individual farmworkers, farmworker families, and networks organize these migrations and attach themselves to farming operations by a variety of social relations. Framing the portraits of crowded households, the histories of networks, and the ethnic vignettes are three chapters placing the community studies into historical and theoretical perspectives. This broad framework underscores the importance of housing, transportation, networks, labor contracts, and ethnic relations in the organization of low-wage labor markets. Full Product DetailsAuthor: David Griffith , Ed Kissam , Manuel Valdes PizziniPublisher: Temple University Press,U.S. Imprint: Temple University Press,U.S. Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.526kg ISBN: 9781566392396ISBN 10: 156639239 Pages: 354 Publication Date: 31 January 1995 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsList of Tables Preface Part I: Introduction 1. The Formation of Agricultural Labor in the United States Part II: The Community Studies 2. Waves of Ethnicity: Immokalee, Florida 3. Migrant Workers on the Delmarva Peninsula Maryland Tomato and Delaware Potato and Mixed-Vegetable Farms 4. Domestic Farmworkers in America's Heartland: Weslaco, Texas, and the Lower Rio Grande Valley 5. Labor Demand in Southwestern Michigan: Last Bastion of the Family Farm 6. Offshore Citizens as a Supply of Farm Labor: El Mani and Sabalos, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico 7. A Labor Force in Transition: Farmworkers in the New Jersey Nursery Industry 8. Northward out of Mexico: Migration Networks and Farm Labor Supply in Parlier, California Part III: The Community Studies in Theoretical Perspective 9. Characteristics of the Farm Labor Market: A Comparative Summary 10. The Poverty of Conventional Thought: Social Theory and the Working Poor Appendix: Methods, Sampling, and the Rationale for the Community Study Approach Notes References About the Author IndexReviews[A] welcome resource for scholars interested in U.S. commercial agriculture and labor migration from both a theoretical and policy perspective. Though the book is densely packed with data, its clear prose makes it accessible to advanced undergraduates, as well as graduate students. --Journal of Political Ecology Author InformationDavid Griffith is Associate Scientist, Department of Anthropology at the Institute for Coastal and Marine Resources, East Carolina University. Edward Kissam is Senior Research Associate at Pacific Management Research Associates. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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