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Bryce, Herrington J. – 1969
The hourly wages of migrants in Wayne County, New York in 1968 were higher than state or Federal legal requirements. However, for many migrant workers, the irregularity of migrant employment made it less profitable over the harvest than a steady job at the lower legal rates. Moreover, a person who could be employed at a steady job as a…
Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, Economic Factors, Employment, Farm Labor
O'Connell, Michael – Civil Rights Digest, 1972
Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, Economic Factors, Migrant Education, Migrant Employment
Taylor, Howard W. – 1972
Commissioned by the New York State Center for Migrant Studies, this study examined the rate and causes of agricultural mechanization in New York State and its effect upon the economic and living conditions of migrants, as well as the possible solutions to the problems uncovered. Examined in various stages of mechanization were 3 specific areas…
Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, Agricultural Machinery, Church Programs, Community Programs