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Arroyo, Michele Gonzalez; Kurre, Laura – 1997
This report examines the extent to which young people work in California agriculture and describes work-related hazards and injuries among young agricultural workers. Data were gathered through a literature review; discussion groups with parents, community groups, and English-as-a-second-language students in the San Joaquin Valley; surveys of 295…
Descriptors: Accidents, Adolescents, Agricultural Laborers, Agriculture
Vela Acosta, Martha, Ed.; Lee, Barbara, Ed. – 2001
Agriculture is the second most common employer of youth and is associated with numerous occupational hazards, but few preventive efforts to protect adolescent farmworkers have been implemented or evaluated. The largest group of adolescent farmworkers is youth who live away from their natural families and migrate, mostly from Mexico, to work in…
Descriptors: Access to Health Care, Adolescents, Agricultural Laborers, Educational Needs