Promise Unfulfilled - Unions, Immigration, and the Farm Workers

Klappentext Today, many states look to the California experience to assess whether the ALRA can serve as a model for their own farm labour relation laws. In Martin's view, California's efforts to grant rights to farm workers so that they can help themselves have failed because of continued unauthorized migration and the changing structure of farm employment. Martin argues that alternative policies would make farming profitable, raise farm worker wages and still keep groceries affordable. Zusammenfassung In 1975, after vigorous campaigning by the United Farm Workers union, the state of California passed the Agricultural Labor Relations Act (ALRA), a pioneering self-help strategy granting farm workers the right to organize into unions. A quarter...

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Philip L. Martin, Philip L. (Professor of Agriculture and Re Martin
• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 19.08.2003
• EAN: 9780801488757
• ISBN: 978-0-8014-8875-7
• Seiten: 240
• Serien: ILR Press books; ILR Press books
• Thema: Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Wirtschaft > Einzelne Wirtschaftszweige, Branchen