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Koebernick, Tom; Beegle, J. Allan – 1972
The attitudes and opinions of rural Michigan residents were surveyed on selected issues and policies in 1970. The sample included 343 respondents drawn from 34 randomly selected sampling points. Each point was a rural township from which about 10 interviews were made. Responses of the 88 farm and 255 nonfarm residents were compared in the study.…
Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, Attitudes, Crime, Demography
Taylor, Howard W. – 1972
Commissioned by the New York State Center for Migrant Studies, this study examined the rate and causes of agricultural mechanization in New York State and its effect upon the economic and living conditions of migrants, as well as the possible solutions to the problems uncovered. Examined in various stages of mechanization were 3 specific areas…
Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, Agricultural Machinery, Church Programs, Community Programs
Mellor, John W. – Ceres, 1978
The plight of the landless rural poor is discussed and some possible solutions to their situation are suggested and examined. (MDR)
Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, Agricultural Production, Developing Nations, Environmental Education
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LaGumina, Salvatore J. – Journal of Ethnic Studies, 1975
Notes that Rizzo's memoirs constitute an historical document which intersects the immigrant experience of the era of mass Italian immigration. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Authors, Case Studies, Cultural Influences, Ethnic Groups
Watkins, Elizabeth L.; And Others – Migration Today, 1985
Presents results of a 1982 descriptive study of female farmworkers receiving prenatal care at Tri-County Community Health Center in North Carolina. Recommends patient advocacy, minimum wage ensurance, improved housing, access to tax-supported public assistance, and social service programs to improve health status. (SA)
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Environment, Females, Health Needs, Medical Care Evaluation
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Sexton, Patricia Cayo; Sexton, Brendan – Social Policy, 1972
Organized labor and the workers it represents are easily confused, lampooned, and excoriated by liberal social activists and big businessmen alike. (Authors)
Descriptors: Blue Collar Occupations, Employer Attitudes, Labor Force, Laborers
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Hackenberg, Robert A.; Wilson, C. Roderick – Human Organization, 1972
Descriptors: American Indian Reservations, Community Study, Employment Patterns, Migration Patterns
Hendrick, Irving G. – Aztlan--International Journal of Chicano Studies Research, 1977
While Mexican children in the cities were often segregated, the children of Mexican migrant farmworkers were totally ignored by state educational officials before 1920. While a state-directed plan for these children was started in 1919, local school districts continued not to enforce state attendance requirements among the group. (NQ)
Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, Attendance, Educational History, Educational Policy
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Tootle, Deborah M.; Green, Sara E. – Rural Sociology, 1989
Finds that, for 147 Florida migrant farm workers interviewed in 1978, support for unionization was related, in descending order, to being Black, to perceiving mechanization as a threat, and to being dependent on farm work, married, a non-citizen, illiterate, and poorly educated. Contains 22 references. (SV)
Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, Background, Discriminant Analysis, Farm Labor
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Tolnay, Stewart E. – Rural Sociology, 1995
Analysis of public-use samples of 1910 and 1940 censuses of the rural South revealed significant variation in fertility by social class for blacks in both years and for whites in 1940. Farm laborers of both races reported the lowest fertility and steepest declines over the period. A woman's education was negatively related to fertility in all…
Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, Birth Rate, Blacks, Educational Attainment
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Sawh, Ruth; Scales, Alice M. – Negro Educational Review, The, 2006
Our narrative focuses on the middle passage of the slave trade in the West Indies. Herein we describe why more men, women, and children were imported in the West Indies than other islands. Specifically, our aim was to address how slaves in the middle passage of the triangular slave trade were treated, how they sustained themselves, and how they…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Slavery, International Trade, World History
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National Advisory Council on the Education of Disadvantaged Children, Washington, DC.
The unique problems of migrants require increased sensitivity by all levels of policymakers. Educational programs cannot be developed in law and then ignored in practice if worthwhile results are to be achieved. Federal and state level program goals and objectives must be further refined and effectively implemented at the local level. The specific…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Agency Cooperation, Agricultural Laborers, Disadvantaged
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Slesinger, Doris P. – 1979
A survey of Wisconsin's migrant workers was conducted to obtain demographic information, to determine unmet health care needs, and to make recommendations for migrant health services based on those needs. A stratified random sample of 408 workers was selected, representing about 10% of the migrant workers in Wisconsin in the 1978 season; 262 of…
Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, Alcoholism, Demography, Employment Statistics
Rural America, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1977
Federal statistical services grossly underestimate the size of the farmworker population; as a result, the current federal farmworker programs (CETA, Migrant Education, Migrant Headstart, Farm Labor Housing, and Migrant Health) are unable to identify a total target population in need of services and unable to allocate funds in ways which reflect…
Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, Census Figures, Classification, Definitions
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Zalaquett, Carlos P.; McHatton, Patricia Alvarez; Cranston-Gingras, Ann – Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 2007
This article examines research findings from a study of Latina/o farmworker migrant students who have succeeded in gaining access to a college education at a large southern university. Findings reveal students with a strong Latina/o or bicultural identity who attend college seeking a better life, a career path, or to make their family proud.…
Descriptors: Migrants, Student Attitudes, Hispanic American Students, College Students
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