10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FARMWORK»
Discover the use of
farmwork in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
farmwork and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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United States Census of Agriculture, 1964: Data-collection ...
members of the household of the farm operator working at farmwork per week
was as follows: Average Average number of' persons working number of' per
week at farmwork persons Ag f k lOlyears Percent of e 0 W01' er 0 d and rsons
over in ...
2
Agromedicine: Selected Papers from the First Ten Years of ...
The Olmsted Agricultural Trauma Study contains recently released data about
farmwork and non-farmwork related injuries among children and adolescents.1
Children under the age of 14 experienced farm work related injuries at the rate of
18 ...
3
Statistical Handbook on U.S. Hispanics
The Agricultural Work Force, 1987 Characteristic Agricultural work force All hired
farmworkers Did hired farmwork only Operated a farm Did unpaid farmwork
Operated a farm and did unpaid farmwork All farm operators Operated farm only
Did ...
Frank Leopold Schick, Renee Schick, 1991
4
Sharing the Harvest: A Citizen's Guide to Community ...
Most members consider the farmwork a benefit. Their end-of-theseason
evaluations are unanimously positive about only two things: the quality of the
food and the farmwork. 101 102 We reasoned that people who could afford to
buy.
Elizabeth Henderson, 2007
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Who Says?: Working-Class Rhetoric, Class Consciousness, and ...
Migrant farmworkers' hopes that their children will have a better life, outside of
fieldwork, are attributable largely to the social and economic devaluation of
farmwork in the United States. Despite its difficult nature, most farmworkers take
pride in ...
6
Children of Immigrants:: Health, Adjustment, and Public ...
Some children experience risks by engaging in farmwork themselves. In the
NAWS about 13 percent of children ages 10 to 17 who live with their farmworker
parents were reported by their parent as doing farmwork. The majority (51
percent) of ...
Committee on the Health and Adjustment of Immigrant Children and Families, Donald J. Hernandez, National Research Council, 1999
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Papers and Proceedings of the Surgeon General's Conference ...
wages or salary, or receive only a token cash allowance, or do farmwork for room
and board or payment-in-kind. The largest component (46 percent) of the
agricultural work force in 1987 was made up of the 3.6 million people who did
unpaid ...
8
Fact book of U.S. agriculture
... doing housework as their primary activity. About 29 percent of all farmworkers
cited hired farmwork as their chief activity during the year, and another 19 percent
cited nonfarm work as their primary employment status. Farmwork continues to ...
United States. Dept. of Agriculture. Office of Information, United States. Dept. of Agriculture. Office of Governmental and Public Affairs, United States. Dept. of Agriculture. Office of Communication, 1987
9
Fact Book of Agriculture
About 29 percent of all farmworkers cited hired farmwork as their chief activity
during the year, and another 19 percent cited nonfarm work as their primary
employment status. Farmwork continues to be a relatively low-paying occupation.
ln ...
10
Poverty or Development: Global Restructuring and Regional ...
Of course, most of the workers in this chapter migrate during the year to other
farmwork jobs in the United States or back to their home countries. Among the
foreign born, only 45% report never returning home; 12% return home every four
or ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FARMWORK»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
farmwork is used in the context of the following news items.
Guest column: Canada's migrant worker program a model for the world
U.S. farmwork is being done by illegals who are constantly in fear of being rounded up and deported by the busloads. Our workers are here ... «Windsor Star, Jul 15»
The Forgotten Village
Even the farmwork being advertised seems to offer the occasional sublime pleasure—one could pause now and then in the shade of orange ... «The Investigative Fund, Jul 15»
Taste of real country living a tourist's dream / Slow cooking, folk …
... exactly the way it is, like the locals living in folk houses more than a hundred years old who are still doing farmwork in fields,” Yamada said. «The Japan News, Jul 15»
Legendary Budweiser Clydesdales draw crowds to Ashland …
The breed was developed more than three centuries ago for farmwork in the region of Clydesdale, Scotland. The Budweiser Clydesdales made ... «Richland Source, Jul 15»
National prize for IT Carlow students
Their work helps make an important element of farmwork both more efficient and safer. The device they invented is a fencing aid which attaches ... «Carlow People, Jun 15»
The traditional Irish Sunday is dead and gone
Before then it was forbidden to work on Sundays, except for necessary farmwork like milking the cows, for example. Many countrymen, I ... «IrishCentral, Jun 15»
Arts Fest's Juried Visual-Art Show
... and humans doing farmwork. The video is a “representation of connection,” say the artists in a statement. It's dialogueless, and nonnarrative, ... «PGH City Paper, Jun 15»
FEATURE: Morris Saxe and the Canadian Jewish Farm School
... from Miezryc, Poland and train them for farmwork in Canada. The history of his farm school, now largely forgotten, is told in an array of letters, ... «Canadian Jewish News, Jun 15»
Farming steps into the future with robotic dairy
Now, much of the farmwork his daughter and grandson do is computerized. “I hope it pays off for them,” Richard Guthrie said. “I think it will. «Bristol Herald Courier, Jun 15»
Agribusiness Report June 1
For the agricultural sector, much of that confusion centered on how the final rule might impact typical farmwork, like applying fertilizer to fields or ... «KCRG, Jun 15»
