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Temporary work visas as US-Haiti development cooperation : a preliminary impact evaluation

Clemens, Michael A.; Postel, Hannah - In: IZA journal of labor & development 6 (2017) 4, pp. 1-18

agricultural workers. This work occurs in the USA in the context of a pilot program designed as a form of post-disaster development … assistance to Haiti. We find that the effects of matching new seasonal agricultural jobs in the USA with Haitian workers differs … roughly equally between Haiti and the USA; these benefits are very large, including raising the value of Haitian workers …

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The Effect of Technological Change on the Demand and Supply of Hired Farm Workers in the United States

Mishra, Ashok K.; Rezitis, Anthony N. - 2008

This paper investigates the effect of technological chnage on the demand for, and supply of, hired farm workers in the United Syayes for the period 1950 to 1992. Particular attention is given to the proxy for technological change. We have used total expenditures, both by public and private...

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Determinants of Child Labor in the Modern United States : Evidence from Agricultural Workers and Their Children and Concerns for Ongoing Public Policy

Fan, Maoyong; Huston, Mimi; Pena, Anita - 2015

Current legislative proposals consider amendments to child labor laws for U.S. agriculture. Similar amendments, however, have been unsuccessful recently. Using the National Agricultural Workers Survey, we show that child labor is still substantial in the modern U.S. despite some decreases over...

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Labor's outcasts : migrant farmworkers and unions in North America, 1934-1966

Hazelton, Andrew J. - 2022

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...

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Pesticide exposure and the physical and economic health of US crop workers

Pena, Anita Alves; Dixon, Bryanna - In: Applied economic perspectives and policy 44 (2022) 4, pp. 2087-2114

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The fight in the fields: Cesar Chavez and the farmworkers movement

Ferriss, Susan; Sandoval López, Ricardo - 1997 - 1. ed

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Fresh fruit, broken bodies : migrant farmworkers in the United States

Holmes, Seth M. - 2013

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Cesar Chavez : a biography

Bruns, Roger A.; Bruns, Roger - 2005

In the fields -- Nonviolent protest and visions of betterment -- Community organizer -- The rise of the black eagle -- The Delano grape strike -- In the tumult -- Battleground in the fields -- Political prowess -- Viva la causa -- The reach of the reformer

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Contracting freedom : race, empire, and U.S. guestworker programs

Quintana, Maria L. - 2022

"This book represents the first scholarly attempt to examine the broad geographical dimensions of the World War II U.S. contract farm labor programs together and in sweeping detail. It views these labor programs relationally and in tandem to reveal how they were co-constituted and mutually...

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Las migraciones rurales a Estados Unidos y sus consecuencias

Bustamante, Jorge A. - In: Problemas del desarrollo : revista latinoamericana de … 15 (1984) 59

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