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Peer reviewedStockburger, Cassandra – New Generation, 1972
The author, who is Director of the National Committee on the Education of Migrant Children, reviews the history of child farm labor and the development of legal protection for them. (DM)
Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, Child Labor, Child Welfare, Educationally Disadvantaged
Peer reviewedO'Hara, James G. – New Generation, 1972
A Congressman recounts hearings and legislative progress relative to a House bill which he introduced in 1971 to ban child labor in agriculture altogether. (DM)
Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, Child Labor, Child Welfare, Health Needs
Peer reviewedMayhew, Leonard; Fols, Douglas – New Generation, 1972
This two-part article reports an investigation by the National Committee on the Education of Migrant Children and its role in correcting illegal and exploitive practices of a school in Louisiana attended by migrant children. (DM)
Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, Child Labor, Educationally Disadvantaged, Labor Legislation
Peer reviewedGreene, Shirley E. – New Generation, 1972
Resistance to improvement of educational opportunity for child laborers suggests the presence of deep-seated factors involved in the issue. Some tenacious myths rationalizing child labor are refuted in this article. (DM)
Descriptors: Child Labor, Educationally Disadvantaged, Labor Legislation, Migrants
Download full textMETZLER, WILLIAM H.; SARGENT, FREDERIC O. – 1962
THIS DOCUMENT PRESENTS THE RESULTS OF A 1957 SURVEY MADE IN SIX SPECIALLY CHOSEN SOUTHERN TEXAS CITIES, WHERE MIGRANTS WERE QUESTIONED REGARDING (1) FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS, INCLUDING MOVEMENT, EMPLOYMENT, EARNINGS THE PREVIOUS YEAR, FAMILY SIZE, AND CULTURAL BACKGROUND, AND (2) PROBLEMS CAUSING EDUCATIONAL DIFFICULTIES FOR THEIR CHILDREN. CURRENT…
Descriptors: Blacks, Child Labor, Day Care Centers, Labor Legislation
Stockburger, Cassandra – 1977
Although community services for migrant children have increased considerably over the past 15 years, they are still primarily restricted to those provided by special Federal or state legislation such as the 1974 Economic Opportunity and Community Partnership Act, the ESEA Title I Migrant Amendment, the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act,…
Descriptors: Accountability, Agricultural Laborers, Child Labor, Community Services
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. – 1967
Migratory farm workers employed in 688 countries in 46 states in 1965 represent a 9 percent increase over 1964. Average earnings for the migratory farm worker in 1965 were $1,737. In spite of the new legislation, which is described, there are additional needs in the areas of wages, child labor, health, education, day care, housing, sanitation, and…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Agricultural Laborers, Child Labor, Collective Bargaining
Kissam, Edward; Intili, Jo Ann; Garcia, Anna – 2001
The U.S. agricultural labor market is already, in many respects, a binational one, and it will become increasingly one in which workers who are born in Mexico will follow a variety of worklife trajectories that take them back and forth between both countries. Recognition of this reality has important implications for policy development and program…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Adolescents, Braceros, Child Labor
