The Endless Quest
Helping America's Farm Workers
1st Edition
Published on 27. September 2019
Book
Hardback
258 pages
978-0-367-29176-1 (ISBN)
Description
A work which traces the development of US Government programmes designed to help migrant farm workers, showing how the programmes operate today and explaining why they are failing to remedy the problems they were designed to solve.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
660 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-367-29176-1 (9780367291761)
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Persons
Philip Martin is Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Davis, and Chair of the University of California's 60 member Comparative Immigration and Integration Program.
Content
Foreword -- Introduction: Sisyphus in the Fields -- Migrant Farm Workers in U.S. Agriculture -- The Development of Migrant Assistance Programs -- Coordination Among Migrant Assistance Programs -- National Coordination -- Data and Definitions -- The Endless Quest in the 1990s -- Recommendation 92-4 of the Administrative Conference of the United States 1 C.F.R. ?305.92-4 (1993) -- Migrant Services Directory (October 1992) -- Farm Labor Data -- Glossary of Acronyms