On the Season: Aspects of the Migrant Labor System
Author: Nelkin, Dorothy
Date Published: 1970
Book that is a series of essays that examines three aspects of the migrant labor system. It is an analysis, based on systematic ethnographic observations, of the internal dynamics of a social group so low in the American socioeconomic hierarchy that it may be considered outside, or marginal to, it. The first essay focusses on the structure of work, the influences of employment relationships on satisfaction, work attitudes, and stability. The second essay concerns the bearing of unpredictability and disorder - characteristics of the migrant labor setting on life style in the camps. The third deals with the relationship of the migrant to the wider society.
Date Published: 1970
Book that is a series of essays that examines three aspects of the migrant labor system. It is an analysis, based on systematic ethnographic observations, of the internal dynamics of a social group so low in the American socioeconomic hierarchy that it may be considered outside, or marginal to, it. The first essay focusses on the structure of work, the influences of employment relationships on satisfaction, work attitudes, and stability. The second essay concerns the bearing of unpredictability and disorder - characteristics of the migrant labor setting on life style in the camps. The third deals with the relationship of the migrant to the wider society.
