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Barton, Amy E. – 1978
A one year descriptive study of demographic characteristics, employment situations, and supportive services needs of women farmworkers in the California labor force was conducted in 1977-78. Data were collected in interviews with both employers and 400 women and 200 men engaged in farmwork in Fresno and Imperial Counties. Most of the women were of…
Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, Demography, Employed Women, Employer Attitudes
Durant, Bill E.; Ragster, Silas N. – 1970
The first in a series, this paper deals with housing offered employable single men in Sacramento, California during the winter of 1969-70. Sponsored by the Department of Applied Behavioral Sciences (University of California, Davis), the study was begun in February 1970. The initial impetus for university involvement in the problems of single,…
Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, Attitudes, Community Surveys, Ethnic Groups
California State Dept. of Employment Development, Sacramento. Migrant Services Section. – 1978
The Employment Development Department's Migrant Services Section provides temporary housing at reasonable cost for migrant farmworkers and their families by contracting with local government agencies to manage programs of housing construction, operation and maintenance. Since 1965 migrant housing projects have been constructed at 26 locations in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age, Agricultural Laborers, Ethnic Groups