Onset of Substance Use Among Transnational and Domestic Agricultural Workers: Social Relations and Place of Initiation
Author: Bletzer, Kieth V.
Date Published: 2004
Based on a series of 173 interviews in the American South with 119 men and women with a range of experience in agriculture, this study that examines locales where initiation of substance use takes place and identifies social relationships that figure in the context of first and subsequent use among transnational U.S. born workers in agriculture Farmworkers differ from both urban and rural populations by their short-term, irregular employment and , for those who migrate, frequent travel. Overall, they enjoy few of the work benefits of other occupations, and they generally include members of minority populations that experience high levels of drug use.
Date Published: 2004
Based on a series of 173 interviews in the American South with 119 men and women with a range of experience in agriculture, this study that examines locales where initiation of substance use takes place and identifies social relationships that figure in the context of first and subsequent use among transnational U.S. born workers in agriculture Farmworkers differ from both urban and rural populations by their short-term, irregular employment and , for those who migrate, frequent travel. Overall, they enjoy few of the work benefits of other occupations, and they generally include members of minority populations that experience high levels of drug use.
