The endless quest: helping America's farm workers

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A work which traces the development of US Government programmes designed to help migrant farm workers, showing how the programmes operate today and explaining why they are failing to remedy the problems they were designed to solve.

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Full title :The endless quest : helping America's farm workers / Philip L. Martin and David A. Martin.

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Publication Date:2019.

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Publisher(s):CRC Press
Place of Publication:Boca Raton
Language:eng
Publication Date:2019.

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"First published 1994 by Westview Press, Inc."--Title page verso

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Description:1 online resource : : illustrations

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ISBN:042931051X, 9780429310515, 9781000229127, 1000229122, 9781000301007, 1000301001, 9781000265064, 1000265064
DOI:10.1201/9780429310515
oclc:on1104601871
LC Classification:HD1525
Dewey Decimal:331.5/44/0973

Introduction: Sisyphus in the Fields. The Endless Quest to Help Migrants. The Plan of This Book -- 1. Migrant Farm Workers in U.S. Agriculture. The U.S. Food and Fiber System. Farm Labor: A History of Neglect. Farm Labor Themes. Why Migrant Assistance Programs? Migrants and Immigrants -- 2. The Development of Migrant Assistance Programs. Overcoming Local Neglect. Migrant Education. Migrant Health. Migrant Head Start. Job Training for Migrant and Seasonal Farm Workers (JTPA 402). Other Federal Programs Serving Farm Workers -- 3. Coordination Among Migrant Assistance Programs. State Level Coordination. Coordination at the Local Level. Coordination: Promises and Problems. Do Differences in Definitions Impede Coordination? -- 4. National Coordination. Existing National Coordination Efforts. Evaluation of National-Level Coordination. Toward a Better Coordinating Entity. Promoting Coordination: An Interagency Coordinating Council -- 5. Data and Definitions. Myths and Stereotypes. Bottom-Up Versus Top-Down Estimation Procedures. Three Suggestions for Change. Migrant Numbers and Characteristics. A Serious Strategy for Farm Worker Data. Developing a Uniform Definition. The Elements of a Co…

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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor Landarbeiter Migrant agricultural laborers -- Govern… Migrant agricultural laborers -- Govern… POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial… Saisonarbeiter SCIENCE -- Life Sciences Sozialpolitik Travailleurs agricoles migrants -- Poli… United States USA