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Farm Labor and the Struggle for Justice in the Eastern United States

Author: Wiggins, M.F.
Date Published: 2009


Farm work has historically been performed by people of color who suffer widespread labor abuses and lack the power to make systemic change in the agricultural system. This continues today. Farmworkers are consistently treated as different from other employees, and are governed by different labor standards. There has been little to no effort to include farmworkers in the major labor laws, partly because of the difficulties organizing a primarily migrant, undocumented and disenfranchised farmworker population and partly due to the strong opposition by agricultural employers. Link: http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-0-387-88347-2_9

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Number of Pages: 19