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

Martin, Philip

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ISBN 10: 0300139179 ISBN 13: 9780300139174

Casa editrice: Yale Univ Pr, 2009

Riassunto

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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Informazioni sull?autore

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. He lives in Davis, CA.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Yale Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0300139179
• ISBN 13: 9780300139174
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 242
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile