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Worby, Paula A.; Organista, Kurt C. – Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 2007
This review addresses a growing concern regarding alcohol use in adult male Latino im/migrant laborers in the United States. The review draws from alcohol studies focusing on "Hispanic" populations, and from health behavior studies of Latino im/migrant laborers, research that includes alcohol use. Specifically, this review addresses (a) alcohol…
Descriptors: Health Behavior, Alcohol Abuse, Laborers, Migrants
Ben-Ami, Ilan – Migration World Magazine, 1992
Examines characteristics and immigration experiences of young male Israeli immigrants to New York City who find work in car washes and furniture moving, jobs requiring neither special skills nor work papers. Differences in background and long-range immigration plans between the groups are discussed. (SLD)
Descriptors: Acculturation, Adults, Blue Collar Occupations, Cultural Background
Littlefield, Alice, Ed.; Knack, Martha C., Ed. – 1996
This book reconsiders a largely ignored fact of North American Indian economic life--the place of wage labor in the culture and history of Native Americans. Case studies examine social networks of Native agricultural laborers, the decline of Native communities from self-sufficient producers to lower-class wage laborers, vocational education in…
Descriptors: Acculturation, American Indian Education, American Indian History, Case Studies