American Guestworkers - Jamaicans and Mexicans in the U.S. Labor Market

About the author

David Griffith is Professor of Anthropology at East Carolina University. He is also the author of The Estuary's Gift: An Atlantic Coast Biography (Penn State, 1999).

Summary

The H-2 program, originally based in Florida, is a labor-importation program in the country. This book examines the socioeconomic effects of the H-2 program on both the areas where the laborers work and the areas they are from, and, taking a humanitarian stance, considers the effects of the program on the laborers themselves.

Product details

• Authors: David Griffith, David (East Carolina University) Griffith
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.11.2007
• EAN: 9780271031880
• ISBN: 978-0-271-03188-0
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 426 g
• Illustrations: Karten
• Series: Rural Studies
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, Industrial relations, health & safety, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Rural, Rural communities, United States of America, USA, Migration, immigration and emigration, Sociology & anthropology, Refugees & Political Asylum, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / Unions, Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples