The Endless Quest

Helping America's Farm Workers

Philip L Martin, David A Martin

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CRC Press
27 September 2019

Agriculture & related industries; Agricultural science

A work which traces the development of US Government programmes designed to help migrant farm workers, showing how the programmes operate today and explaining why they are failing to remedy the problems they were designed to solve.

By: Philip L Martin, David A Martin
Imprint: CRC Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 657g
ISBN: 9780367291761
ISBN 10: 0367291762
Pages: 258
Publication Date: 27 September 2019
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Primary , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Foreword -- Introduction: Sisyphus in the Fields -- Migrant Farm Workers in U.S. Agriculture -- The Development of Migrant Assistance Programs -- Coordination Among Migrant Assistance Programs -- National Coordination -- Data and Definitions -- The Endless Quest in the 1990s -- Recommendation 92–4 of the Administrative Conference of the United States 1 C.F.R. §305.92–4 (1993) -- Migrant Services Directory (October 1992) -- Farm Labor Data -- Glossary of Acronyms

Philip Martin is Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Davis, and Chair of the University of California's 60 member Comparative Immigration and Integration Program.