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Nonfarm Employment of Farm Operators, Hired Farmworkers, and Unpaid Farmworkers [PDF]
, 1990 Over 4.4 million farm operators, hired farmworkers, and unpaid farmworkers, or 57 percent of all persons employed on U.S. farms in 1987, also did nonfarmwork for cash wages or salary. The nonfarmwork accounted for a major portion of their work time and was an important source of income.
Oliveira, Victor J., Oliveira, Victor J.
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Variability in the take-home pathway: Farmworkers and non-farmworkers and their children [PDF]
Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology, 2014 Organophosphate pesticides (OPs) are related to ill health among adults, including farmworkers who are exposed to OPs as part of their regular work. Children of both farmworkers and non-farmworkers in agricultural communities may also be affected by pesticide exposure.
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A Profile of Hired Farmworkers, 1990 Annual Averages [PDF]
, 2020 An average 886,000 persons age 15 years and older were employed per week as hired farmworkers in 1990. Hired farmworkers tend to be younger and less educated than other wage and salary workers and are more likely to be male, Hispanic, and never married.
Oliveira, Victor J.
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Health Care Access among CaliforniaÂ’s Farmworkers [PDF]
, 2022 Recent federal and state policies may have improved access to health insurance for farmworkers, who are important contributors to California's economy and an essential link in the food supply chain.
Paulette Cha
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The invisibility of farmworkers: Implications and remedies [PDF]
Latino Studies, 2022 This article highlights the invisibility of farmworkers in Michigan, a state dependent on migrant labor for more than one hundred years. The study describes migrant housing camps using data from fieldwork, visits to housing camps, and the shadowing of outreach staff from service organizations. Although regulated, accommodations are minimal, substandard,
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, 2019 The estimated 2.4 million farmworkers in the United States are vital to US food production. However, these workers are exploited, undervalued, and vulnerable to compounding climate change threats.
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The Fruits of the Past: The Unfair Consequences of Excluding Massachusetts Farmworkers from State Labor Law Protections and How the Fairness for Farmworkers Act Will Remedy That Injustice [PDF]
, 2021 This report advocates for the Massachusetts Legislature to pass the Fairness for Farmworkers Act (FFA) to end the second-class treatment of farmworkers under the state\u27s current wage and hour law.
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Contextualizing the Health of U.S. Farmworkers [PDF]
, 2021 Farmworkers often exist in vulnerable social and occupational positions that make accessing health care a challenge. This literature review seeks to outline the health of U.S.
Hyde, Gabrielle
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PROFILE OF HIRED FARMWORKERS, 1998 ANNUAL AVERAGES [PDF]
, 2017 An average of 875,000 persons 15 years of age and older did hired farmwork each week as their primary job in 1998. An additional 63,000 people did hired farmwork each week as their secondary job.
Runyan, Jack L.
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Latina farmworkers' experiences: Maintaining dignity in an oppressive workplace
, 2022 Farmworkers in the United States support the billion-dollar agriculture industry, but they and their work are largely undervalued and ignored. While workplace research has thoroughly examined mistreatment at work, there is little research that delves ...
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