"During World War II, a group of potato farmers opened the first migrant labor camp in Suffolk County to house farmworkers from Jamaica. Over the next twenty years, more than one hundred camps of various sizes would be built throughout the region. Thousands of migrant workers lured by promises...

Introduction: "The Stepchildren of Labor" -- The Rise and Decline of Farmworker Unionism, 1934-46 -- Dominant Growers, Futile Organizing, 1946-51 -- Permanent Guestworkers, Struggling Union, 1951-54 -- Border Fantasies: Immigration and Cross-Border Organizing, 1948-55 -- Union Advocacy, Rising...

The policy debate surrounding the employment of immigrant workers in U.S. agriculture centers around the extent to which immigrant farmworkers adversely affect the economic opportunities of native farmworkers. To help answer this question, we propose a three-layer nested constant elasticity of...

An important class of active labor market policy has received little rigorous impact evaluation: immigration barriers intended to improve the terms of employment for domestic workers by deliberately shrinking the workforce. Recent advances in the theory of endogenous technical change suggest...