Children and Borders

Children and Borders

Author: S. Spyrou

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-11-04

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 113732631X

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This collection brings together an interdisciplinary pool of scholars to explore the relationship between children and borders with richly-documented ethnographic studies from around the world. The book provides a penetrating account of how borders affect children's lives and how children play a constitutive role in the social life of borders.


Riding the Rails

Riding the Rails

Author: Errol Lincoln Uys

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004-06

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 1135942293

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Through letters and photographs, profiles teenagers who hopped the freight trains during the Great Depression in order to find adventure, seek employment, or escape poverty.


Farm Workers, Agribusiness, and the State

Farm Workers, Agribusiness, and the State

Author: Linda C. Majka

Publisher:

Published: 1982

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13:

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Historical account of the social conflict between agricultural workers and agribusiness, and the role of state intervention in California, USA - analyses agricultural trade unionism since 1870, immigration of Chinese, Japanese, Mexicans and Filipinos, and its regulation; examines the economic recession of the 1930s, rise of rural worker organizations, internal migration, and state-enrolled contract labour; reports on the formation of the United Farm Workers and its struggle for trade union recognition, opposition, and state mediation. Bibliography.