Importing Poverty?: Immigration and the Changing Face of Rural America - Couverture rigide

Martin, Philip

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0300139179 ISBN 13 : 9780300139174

Editeur : Yale University Press, 2009

Synopsis

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 labourers, 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-labour model that has evolved in rural America is neither desirable nor sustainable. He proposes regularizing U.S. farm workers and rationalizing the farm labour market, an approach that will help American farmers stay globally competitive while also improving conditions for farm workers.

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À propos de l'auteur

Philip Martin is professor of agricultural and resource economics, University of California, Davis; chair of the UC Comparative Immigration and Integration Program; and editor of the quarterlies 'Migration News' and 'Rural Migration News'. He is the author of 'Managing Labor Migration in the Twenty-First Century', published by Yale University Press.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Yale University Press
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0300139179
• ISBN 13: 9780300139174
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 272
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