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California's Agribusiness and the Farm Labor Question: The Transition from Asian to Mexican Labor, 1919-1939
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Kim, Joon K. – Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, 2012
During the interwar period, California's labor-intensive agriculture transitioned from reliance on diverse immigrants to preference for Mexicans. Political movements to restrict immigration, the Great Depression, and labor unrest compelled farm employers to search for labor that could be used flexibly and deported easily. To achieve this…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Agriculture, Agricultural Laborers, Foreign Countries
Problems and Conditions of Workers' Organisations in Agriculture and Implications for Workers' Education
Labour Education, 1975
The background, achievements, problems, and future plans of various workers' organizations in agriculture are discussed: International Federation of Plantation, Agricultural, and Allied Workers; Trade Union International of Agricultural, Forestry, and Plantation Workers; World Federation of Agricultural Workers; and the Asian Trade Union College.…
Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, Educational Needs, Foreign Countries, International Organizations
Mobility of Farm Workers; A Study of the Effects of Towns and Industrial Employment on the Supply of Farm Labour. Occasional Paper No. 2.
Gasson, Ruth – 1974
The study concerns the impact of nonfarm employment opportunities on the hired farm labor force and is based on surveys of labor on farms near one new, one expanded, and one old-established town in eastern England, supplemented with findings of other British studies on mobility of farm workers. The main questions considered are the influence of…
Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, Employment Opportunities, Farm Labor, Farmers