Importing Poverty?
Immigration and the Changing Face of Rural America
1st Edition
Published on 28. April 2009
264 pages
978-0-300-15600-3 (ISBN)
Description
American agriculture employs some 2.5 million workers during a typical year, most for fewer than six months. Three fourths of these farm workers are immigrants, half are unauthorized, and most will leave seasonal farm work within a decade. What do these statistics mean for farmers, for laborers, for rural America?This book addresses the question by reviewing what is happening on farms and in the towns and cities where immigrant farm workers settle with their families. Philip Martin finds that the business-labor model that has evolved in rural America is neither desirable nor sustainable. He proposes regularizing U.S. farm workers and rationalizing the farm labor market, an approach that will help American farmers stay globally competitive while also improving conditions for farm workers.
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Prologue: Coming to America
- Part One: Immigration and Agriculture
- 1 Immigration to the United States
- 2 Agriculture and Migrants
- Part Two: The Changing Face of Rural America
- 3 California Fruits and Vegetables
- 4 Florida Sugar, Oranges, and Tomatoes
- 5 Meat and Poultry
- Part Three: Migrant Integration
- 6 Seasonal Worker Mobility
- 7 Migrants: The Integration Challenge
- Part Four: Whither Rural America?
- 8 Labor Shortages, Mechanization, and Food Costs
- 9 Reforming U.S. Immigration Policies
- 10 Regularize and Rationalize Farm Labor
- Epilogue: The Great Migration
- Appendix 1 Farm Employment, Immigration, and Poverty
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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