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Vicinus, Martha – College English, 1971
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, English Literature, Industrialization, Laborers
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Dougherty, Sarah E. – Journal of School Health, 1971
The scope of the New Jersey program covers physical exams, immunizations, dental services, nutritional services, psychological evaluation, and eye exams. (CJ)
Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, Family Mobility, Federal Programs, Health Programs
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Miller, S. M. – New Generation, 1970
Based on a chapter entitled "Barriers to Employment of the Disadvantaged by Martin Deutsch and S. M. Miller in "Manpower Report of the President, 1968. Discusses the Nixon proposals for remediating poverty in relation to the socioeconomic factors operating to maintain the condition of being poor while working. (JM)
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Patterns, Employment Problems, Family Income
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Daly, Patricia A. – Monthly Labor Review, 1981
The long-term decrease in farm employment has moderated in recent years, although technological gains continue, and farmers often need to moonlight in nonfarm jobs in order to remain in the business. (Author)
Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, Agricultural Production, Agricultural Trends, Employment Patterns
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Barber, N. – Intelligence, 2005
The new paradigm of evolutionary social science suggests that humans adjust rapidly to changing economic conditions, including cognitive changes in response to the economic significance of education. This research tested the predictions that cross-national differences in IQ scores would be positively correlated with education and negatively…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Social Sciences, Secondary Education, Intelligence Quotient
Pollack, Susan L. – 1986
In 1983, about 2.6 million people 14 years of age and older did hired farmwork. Most of the woekers were White (73%), under 25 years old (50%), and male (78%). Hispanics made up 13% of the work force, and Blacks and other minority groups made up 14%. There were significant regional differences in racial/ethnic composition. Hispanic workers were…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Agricultural Laborers, Blacks, Census Figures
National Rural Health Care Association, Kansas City, MO. – 1986
The estimated three million United States migrant and seasonal farmworkers and their families suffer from a variety of occupational hazards and ailments exacerbated by limited, or nonexistent, health care services. Although existing migrant and seasonal farmworker health data is incomplete, general statements can be made about the health risks…
Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, Child Welfare, Disease Incidence, Diseases
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Bennett, Donald G. – 1977
In an effort to lessen the social and economic dysfunctions many California farm workers suffer because of the migratory and seasonal nature of their jobs, a three-phase study was conducted to research, develop, and implement a new career system for the farm worker. During the project's first phase, a job task analysis was conducted on four…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Agricultural Laborers, Career Development, Career Ladders
InterAmerica Research Associates, Washington, DC. – 1976
From August 1975 to January 1976, a study was conducted to provide an assessment of the migrant and seasonal farmworker situation. Inquiry was along the topic divisions of demographics, employment and manpower, housing, education, health, supportive services, economic development, Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) 303 and other…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Agricultural Laborers, Ancillary Services, Coordination
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Huntington, Suellen – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1975
This paper explores issues and hypotheses concerned with women's work in developing economies. The relationships among agricultural labor, marketing, and trading activity rates in traditional and modernizing economies are not supported by the data. Alternative hypotheses explain the differential employment rates of women in modernizing economies.…
Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, Cross Cultural Studies, Developing Nations, Economic Development
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Crandall, Robert W.; And Others – Journal of Human Resources, 1975
The model describes the demand and supply of low-skill labor (private household workers, other service workers, and nonfarm laborers) by State, based on the March 1970 Current Population Survey for 43 States and groups of States by a simultaneous-equations method. (Author/EA)
Descriptors: Labor Demands, Labor Economics, Labor Market, Labor Supply
Soviet Education, 1974
Data on the educational level of the Soviet work force is presented. (KM)
Descriptors: Census Figures, Comparative Analysis, Educational Trends, Labor Force
Taylor, J. Edward; Espenshade, Thomas J. – 1987
The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 contains controversial provisions to allow temporary "replenishment" farmworkers to enter the United States to harvest perishable crops. This paper describes the role of legal and illegal foreign workers in California agriculture in relation to these provisions and the assumptions on which…
Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, Employment Patterns, Farm Labor, Federal Legislation
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Brown, Martin – Environment, 1975
The citrus thrips is a small insect pest that causes some cosmetic damage, but seldom causes yield reduction, tree kills, or lower the nutritional value or eating quality of citrus fruits. In California however, economic and marketing factors have prompted the massive, unnecessary overuse of insecticides to kill this pest. (Author/MA)
Descriptors: Agribusiness, Agricultural Laborers, Agricultural Production, Economics
Nord, David Paul – 1981
Library historians and historians of literacy have been more creative than journalism historians in using individual-level historical data such as deeds, wills, depositions, surveys, and census figures to study reading behaviors of the past. For example, the series of family cost of living surveys conducted in the United States by state and…
Descriptors: Audiences, Employment Statistics, Laborers, Media Research
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