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Download full textMinnesota Governor's Interracial Commission, St. Paul. – 1953
This extensive revision of a 1948 report notes the gradual assimilation of Mexicans into Minnesota's population. There are chapters on the employment of Texas Mexicans and Mexican nationals in agriculture and urban industries, on housing and family life, and health, delinquency, and welfare dependency. One chapter is devoted to education, another…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Agricultural Laborers, Agricultural Occupations, Citizenship
Street, Richard Steven; Orozco, Samuel – 1992
Since the late 1970s, California's rural poor (frequently immigrants and refugees) have been engaged in grassroots efforts to change the cultural and political landscapes of their communities. Told in the words of rural people, this book presents six stories of struggle and empowerment. In Yuba City, Latino and East Indian farmworkers felt that…
Descriptors: Activism, Advocacy, Agricultural Laborers, Community Action
National Advisory Commission on Rural Poverty, Washington, DC. – 1967
On September 27, 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson established the National Advisory Commission on Rural Poverty. To this commission, he delegated the responsibility of making a comprehensive study and appraisal of the current economic situations and trends in American rural life. In fulfilling this responsibility, the National Advisory Commission…
Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, Community, Employment, Family Planning
Kelly, Philip L. – 1979
Observations and recollections of Mexican workers, smuggled illegally to farms in southern Colorado, resulted in this account of their attitudes toward work conditions, pay and benefits, leisure activities, feelings of insecurity, and their aspirations. Backgrounds of the 30 aliens interviewed coincided with available statistics on illegal Mexican…
Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, Aspiration, Attitudes, Braceros
National Advisory Commission on Rural Poverty, Washington, DC. – 1967
On September 27, 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson established the National Advisory Commission on Rural Poverty. To this commission, he delegated the responsibility of making a comprehensive study and appraisal of the current economic situations and trends in American rural life. In fulfilling this responsibility, the National Advisory Commission…
Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, American Indians, Community, Employment
Office of Economic Opportunity, Washington, DC. – 1965
THE TABLES AND ACCOMPANYING EXPLANATORY TEXT IN THIS REPORT DESCRIBE THE POOR BY AGE, SEX, AND LOCATION IN 1964. DATA ARE DERIVED FROM THE U.S. BUREAU OF THE CENSUS POPULATION SURVEY IN MARCH 1965. AS OF THIS DATE THERE WERE AN ESTIMATED 12 MILLION HOUSEHOLDS OR 34 MILLION PERSONS LIVING ON A POVERTY-LEVEL INCOME, WHICH AVERAGED APPROXIMATELY 70…
Descriptors: Adults, Age, Agricultural Laborers, Census Figures
