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MIGRANT FARMWORKERS IN AMERICA: A FLORIDA CASE STUDY

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Date Issued:
1981
Summary:
Migrant farmworkers remain an important entity in American agriculture. These economically disadvantaged citizens are often repaid for grueling labor with low wages and intolerable and unsafe working conditions. The majority of migrants are provided with poor and unsanitary housing. Children of migrant parents especially suffer inadequate schooling and non-enforcement of child labor laws. Beneficial legislation is generally thwarted by agribusiness, their lobbyists, and sympathizers in the state legislature and Congress. Unionization of farmworkers can accomplish better living and working conditions, but it will only come through bitter struggle. Florida has proven slow to improve the lot of migrants who toil in the state's fields and groves. Organizers and farmworkers look to the United Farm Workers and Cesar Chavez for hope and leadership. Concerned citizens are providing hopeful signs that Florida may soon produce some positive changes for migrant farmworkers.
Title: MIGRANT FARMWORKERS IN AMERICA: A FLORIDA CASE STUDY.
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Name(s): MOHL, SANDRA MAE.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
O'Sullivan, John, Thesis advisor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1981
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 201 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: Migrant farmworkers remain an important entity in American agriculture. These economically disadvantaged citizens are often repaid for grueling labor with low wages and intolerable and unsafe working conditions. The majority of migrants are provided with poor and unsanitary housing. Children of migrant parents especially suffer inadequate schooling and non-enforcement of child labor laws. Beneficial legislation is generally thwarted by agribusiness, their lobbyists, and sympathizers in the state legislature and Congress. Unionization of farmworkers can accomplish better living and working conditions, but it will only come through bitter struggle. Florida has proven slow to improve the lot of migrants who toil in the state's fields and groves. Organizers and farmworkers look to the United Farm Workers and Cesar Chavez for hope and leadership. Concerned citizens are providing hopeful signs that Florida may soon produce some positive changes for migrant farmworkers.
Identifier: 14074 (digitool), FADT14074 (IID), fau:10889 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1981.
Subject(s): Migrant agricultural laborers--Florida
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