The Migrant Farm Worker in America: Background Data on the Migrant Worker Situation in the United States Today, Bände 11-12U.S. Government Printing Office, 1960 - 79 Seiten |
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Seite 2 - As a migrant, his world will be from the Atlantic to the Pacific— from the Great Lakes to the Rio Grande. It will be his world, however, only in that the only piece of property that he will own will be his grave.
Seite 6 - ... in the number of farms ; and an increase in the average size of farms from 215 acres in 1950 to 242 acres in 1954.
Seite 71 - ... he has an average of more than 15 employees), Alaska, Hawaii, Missouri, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. In New York the minimum age is 14, except that children of 12 may assist in the hand harvest of berries, fruits, and vegetables when school is not in session under certain conditions. In New Jersey the minimum age is 12, and in California, it is 12 during vacations and 14 outside school hours on school days. In Utah the minimum age is 10.
Seite 13 - Shall we continue indefinitely to have low work standards and conditions of employment in agriculture, thus depending on the underprivileged and the unfortunate at home and abroad to supply and replenish our seasonal and migratory work force? Or shall we do in agriculture what we have already done in other sectors of our economy — create honest-to-goodness jobs which will offer a decent living so that domestic workers, without being forced by dire necessity, will be willing to stay in agriculture...
Seite 35 - The time has come to evaluate and coordinate their activities; to let the right hand know what the left hand is doing; to have these agencies working together.
Seite 48 - Grower to comply with any of the provisions of this Agreement shall constitute a material breach thereof and the Secretary of Labor may cancel the Agreement. In such event, the Employer...
Seite 48 - Prior to the arrival of workers the employer shall assure himself that all standards have been met; thereafter and throughout the entire period of employment he shall periodically inspect his housing and facilities in order to insure the continued maintenance of these standards. The employer shall take all necessary steps to see that workers are not assigned to housing units in excess of approved capacity.
Seite 30 - This map shows the major directions of the northward migratory movement of• domestic agricultural workers. The movement is reversed as the crop. season ends in the northern States and the workers drift back to their home-base areas • for many of them, southern California, Texas, and Florida. Southern Negroes predominate among the agricultural migrants in the East Coast States and US citizens of Mexican ancestry in the other States. In addition, low-income southern white families, Puerto Ricans,...
Seite 42 - Carrier of migrant worker by motor vehicle" means any person, including any "contract carrier by motor vehicle", but not including any "common carrier by motor vehicle", who or which transports in interstate or foreign commerce at any one time three or more migrant workers to or from their employment by any motor vehicle other than a passenger automobile or station wagon, except a migrant worker transporting himself or his immediate family. (c) Motor carrier. "Motor carrier" means any carrier of...
Seite 7 - bindle stiff" and the "hobo" of the 1910's and 1920's were the nearest approach to professional migrants this country has ever had. But they, too, have settled down and no longer count significantly in our migratory work force. In the thirties the largest element in our migratory labor group was the "Okie...