The Endless Quest: Helping America's Farm Workers

by Philip L Martin, David A Martin

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367307226
Publisher:	CRC Press
Publication date:	05/31/2021
Pages:	258
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Philip Martin is Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Davis, and Chair of the University of California's 60 member Comparative Immigration and Integration Program.

Table of Contents

Foreword — Introduction: Sisyphus in the Fields — Migrant Farm Workers in U.S. Agriculture — The Development of Migrant Assistance Programs — Coordination Among Migrant Assistance Programs — National Coordination — Data and Definitions — The Endless Quest in the 1990s — Recommendation 92–4 of the Administrative Conference of the United States 1 C.F.R. §305.92–4 (1993) — Migrant Services Directory (October 1992) — Farm Labor Data — Glossary of Acronyms