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migrant labor
migrant labor term applied in the United States to laborers who travel from place to place harvesting crops that must be picked as soon as they ripen. Although migrant labor patterns exist in other parts of the world (e.g., Africa, Australia, Canada, Europe, and South America), none compares with... Read more |
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labor
labor term used both for the effort of performing a task and for the workers engaged in the activity. In ancient times much of the work was done by slaves (see slavery ). In the feudal period agricultural labor was in the main performed by the serf . In medieval towns, however, the skilled... Read more |
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Subsistence farming
Subsistence Agriculture LAND LABOR HARVEST SHARING CULTIVATION PRACTICES TRADE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT BIBLIOGRAPHY The peasant concept of the good life is the minimum expenditure of physical labor. When applied to food production, peasants expend only enough labor to grow enough food to... Read more |
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Cesar Chavez
César Chávez: 1927-1993: Labor leader From his birth into brutal poverty as the son of Mexican immigrants, César Estrada Chávez dedicated his life to improving the lot of migrant farm workers in the United States. Through his courage and devotion to "La Causa," he created the... Read more |
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Labor aristocracy
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International Brotherhood of Teamsters
International Brotherhood of Teamsters 25 Louisiana Avenue N.W. Washington, B.C. 20001-2198U.S.A.Telephone: (202) 624-6800Fax: (202) 624-6918Web site: http://www.teamster.org Labor Union Chartered: 1903Members: 1.5 millionNAIC: 81393 Labor Unions and Similar Labor Organizations The... Read more |
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United States Department of Labor
United States Department of Labor federal executive department established in 1913 and charged with administering and enforcing statutes that promote the welfare of U.S. wage earners, improve their working conditions, and advance their opportunities for profitable employment. Before gaining... Read more |
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child labor
child labor use of the young as workers in factories, farms, and mines. Child labor was first recognized as a social problem with the introduction of the factory system in late 18th-century Great Britain. Children had formerly been apprenticed (see apprenticeship ) or had worked in the family, but... Read more |
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American Federation of Labor
AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR (AFL) The American Federation of Labor (AFL) was originally founded in 1881 as the Federation of Organized Trade and Labor Unions. Trade union leaders representing some fifty thousand members in the United States and Canada formed the group in Pittsburgh,... Read more |
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The Fruits of Their Labor: Atlantic Coast Farmworkers and the Making of...
...Fruits of Their Labor: Atlantic...Making of Migrant Poverty...law and the state, Fruits of...East Coast migrant stream with...farming" (cultivating crops for...conditions faced by migrants. The reformers...workers to their ... |
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Cultivating a new crop of farmhands ; Tougher immigration laws and a...
...filling a critical labor void that has...severe that some farms are actually cutting...used to hire migrant workers to harvest...who normally did farm work were overseas...are not at the farms on time, farmers...of the New York ... |
 "The Knoxville News-Sentinel (Knoxville, TN)")
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Farmer as thankful for Hispanic workers' labor as they are for seasonal jobs.
...six decades, cultivating crops in four...of Hispanic labor. Scott Farms employs roughly...in the United States. State officials said...9 percent of farms in Tennessee...nonimmigrant foreign farm workers ... |
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Managing vineyard labor: advice from an expert.
...Billikopf would. A labor management farm advisor for...Agriculture: Cultivating Personnel Productivity...devoted to helping farm management and...to the United States, where he studied...himself working in migrant ... |
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Cultivating failure: how school gardens are cheating our most vulnerable...
...work in the fields with other migrants. There, you performed stoop labor, picking lettuce and bell peppers...ever there was one, that our farm worker's son might have learned...famous restaurateur in the United States," is, of course, the founder... |
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Cultivating Failure.(school curriculum )
...work in the fields with other migrants. There, you performed stoop labor, picking lettuce and bell peppers...ever there was one, that our farm worker’s son might...famous restaurateur in the United States," is, of course, the founder... |
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...reporters dig in to labor issues locally...for reporting, cultivating sources and writing...Digging down on the farm." suggests...locate data on migrant farm workers. (No...Information on state worker compensation...medical ... |
 "The Record (Bergen County, NJ)")
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Cons may replace migrant farmworkers
...Cons may replace migrant farmworkersTHE...immigrants, state officials are...half-dozen farms by May.The...gangs and slave labor. It's been...giants at the state Capitol developing...planting, cultivating and ... |
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Reflections of History -- Latest Toppenish mural showcases reality of...
...agricultural labor during the war, the United States and Mexican...the United States to thin beets...Desiga said migrant farm workers are...used for cultivating sugar beets. Many states - ... |
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Convicts tapped for farm work
...shortage of migrant farmworkers...immigrants, state officials are...half-dozen farms by May. The...gangs and slave labor. It's been...planting, cultivating and harvesting...Prutch, who farms 250 acres...to work on a ... |
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