The H-2b Guestworker Program and Improving the Department of Labor's Enforcement of the Rights of Guestworkers - Scholar's Choice Edition
The H-2b Guestworker Program and Improving the Department of Labor's Enforcement of the Rights of Guestworkers - Scholar's Choice Edition

Author: United States Congress House of Represen

Publisher: Scholar's Choice

Published: 2015-02-14

Total Pages: 394

ISBN-13: 9781298015167

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A Season of Change
A Season of Change

Author: Jayesh Rathod

Publisher:

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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The mistreatment of seasonal nonagricultural workers brought to the United States through the H-2B program is an area of concern for many immigration and workplace justice advocates. While recent proposed revisions of the H2-B regulations may bring some positive changes in the scheme, the H2-B program remains the same until the regulations are finalized. Examining the structure and flaws of the current H-2B framework shows that H-2B workers face many challenges, both when they try to participate in the program and when they try to challenge unfair treatment by their employers.

Factories in the Field
Factories in the Field

Author: Carey McWilliams

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2000-04-15

Total Pages: 365

ISBN-13: 0520925181

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This book was the first broad exposé of the social and environmental damage inflicted by the growth of corporate agriculture in California. Factories in the Field—together with the work of Dorothea Lange, Paul Taylor, and John Steinbeck—dramatizes the misery of the dust bowl migrants hoping to find work in California agriculture. McWilliams starts with the scandals of the Spanish land grant purchases, and continues on to examine the experience of the various ethnic groups that have provided labor for California's agricultural industry—Chinese, Japanese, Mexicans, Filipinos, Armenians—the strikes, and the efforts to organize labor unions

The Price of Rights
The Price of Rights

Author: Martin Ruhs

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2015-02-22

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 0691166005

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Many low-income countries and development organizations are calling for greater liberalization of labor immigration policies in high-income countries. At the same time, human rights organizations and migrant rights advocates demand more equal rights for migrant workers. The Price of Rights shows why you cannot always have both. Examining labor immigration policies in over forty countries, as well as policy drivers in major migrant-receiving and migrant-sending states, Martin Ruhs finds that there are trade-offs in the policies of high-income countries between openness to admitting migrant workers and some of the rights granted to migrants after admission. Insisting on greater equality of rights for migrant workers can come at the price of more restrictive admission policies, especially for lower-skilled workers. Ruhs advocates the liberalization of international labor migration through temporary migration programs that protect a universal set of core rights and account for the interests of nation-states by restricting a few specific rights that create net costs for receiving countries. The Price of Rights analyzes how high-income countries restrict the rights of migrant workers as part of their labor immigration policies and discusses the implications for global debates about regulating labor migration and protecting migrants. It comprehensively looks at the tensions between human rights and citizenship rights, the agency and interests of migrants and states, and the determinants and ethics of labor immigration policy.

The Fruits of Their Labor
The Fruits of Their Labor

Author: Cindy Hahamovitch

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 9780807846391

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In 1933 Congress granted American laborers the right of collective bargaining, but farmworkers got no New Deal. Cindy Hahamovitch's pathbreaking account of migrant farmworkers along the Atlantic Coast shows how growers enlisted the aid of the state in an unprecedented effort to keep their fields well stocked with labor. This is the story of the farmworkers_Italian immigrants from northeastern tenements, African American laborers from the South, and imported workers from the Caribbean_who came to work in the fields of New Jersey, Georgia, and Florida in the decades after 1870. These farmworkers were not powerless, the author argues, for growers became increasingly open to negotiation as their crops ripened in the fields. But farmers fought back with padrone or labor contracting schemes and 'work-or-fight' forced-labor campaigns. Hahamovitch describes how growers' efforts became more effective as federal officials assumed the role of padroni, supplying farmers with foreign workers on demand. Today's migrants are as desperate as ever, the author concludes, not because poverty is an inevitable feature of modern agricultural work, but because the federal government has intervened on behalf of growers, preventing farmworkers from enjoying the fruits of their labor.

The Darjeeling Distinction
The Darjeeling Distinction

Author: Sarah Besky

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 0520277392

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Introduction : reinventing the plantation for the 21st century -- Darjeeling -- Plantation -- Property -- Fairness -- Sovereignty -- Conclusion : is something better than nothing?

Rigby Literacy
Rigby Literacy

Author:

Publisher: Rigby

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 28

ISBN-13: 9780763566777

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Lauren shows her mom she is ready for the responsibility of taking care of a real dog by pretending her shoe is a dog. Her mom becomes convinced by Lauren's hard work and gives her a dog.