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Download full textWisconsin Univ., Madison. Center on Wisconsin Strategy. – 2001
A study explored the quality of life of Latinos living in Dane County, Wisconsin. Data collection included door-to-door surveys, in-depth interviews, and analysis of government reports. Findings indicated Latinos often work in bad jobs, characterized by poverty-level wages, rare and inconsistent overtime pay, erratic and inflexible schedules, few…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adults, Culture Conflict, Dismissal (Personnel)
Education Commission of the States, Denver, CO. – 1987
The condition of migrant students is detailed in this report, which points out that the problems facing migrant students are shared by many at-risk students and the recommendations for migrant students apply to many segments of the at-risk population. Chapter 1 outlines migrant student demographics noting racial and ethnic minority status, limited…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Demography, Economic Factors, Educational Change
Marcus, Rachel; Harper, Caroline – 1997
Recognizing the vulnerability of working children to possible exploitation and abuse, this report examines remunerated and unremunerated work performed by children worldwide, ranging from child labor in factories and agriculture to work conducted within the family household. Section 1 of the report describes the scale and importance of children's…
Descriptors: Child Labor, Child Welfare, Children, Education Work Relationship
Vela Acosta, Martha, Ed.; Lee, Barbara, Ed. – 2001
Agriculture is the second most common employer of youth and is associated with numerous occupational hazards, but few preventive efforts to protect adolescent farmworkers have been implemented or evaluated. The largest group of adolescent farmworkers is youth who live away from their natural families and migrate, mostly from Mexico, to work in…
Descriptors: Access to Health Care, Adolescents, Agricultural Laborers, Educational Needs
Johnson, Jennifer – 2002
The lives of working-class women were explored through interviews with 63 middle-aged women, most of whom were employed in working-class jobs and living working-class lives in Baltimore, Maryland. The following were among the areas covered in the interviews: the women's lives on and off the job; their job satisfaction; the reasons they work and…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Caregivers, Definitions, Disadvantaged
Beder, Sharon – 2000
This book provides an account and critique of the work ethic, a central aspect of modern capitalist society. Chapter 1 is an introduction. Chapter 2 considers social changes in Europe in the 16th-17th centuries, maintaining that work was imbued with moral qualities and wealth seeking acquired social legitimacy through religious sanction. Chapter 3…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Advantaged, Behavior Standards, Capitalism
