Migrant Farmworkers: America's New Plantation Workers
Author: Ahn, Christine; Moore, Melissa
Date Published: 2004
This study explores how trends in food production and developments in government policy foster conditions that make US farmworkers ripe for exploitation. Topics include: The Plight of US Farmworkers; The Systemic Exploitation of Farm Workers; US Immigration and Labor: Laws Designed for Exploitation; Consolidation and contracting Depress Wages; Consolidation; The Farm Labor Contractor System; and NAFTA-Forced Migration from the Mexican Countryside.
Date Published: 2004
This study explores how trends in food production and developments in government policy foster conditions that make US farmworkers ripe for exploitation. Topics include: The Plight of US Farmworkers; The Systemic Exploitation of Farm Workers; US Immigration and Labor: Laws Designed for Exploitation; Consolidation and contracting Depress Wages; Consolidation; The Farm Labor Contractor System; and NAFTA-Forced Migration from the Mexican Countryside.
