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Hired Farmworkers: Background and Trends for the Eighties

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  • Smith, Leslie Whitener
  • Coltrane, Robert

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As farms become fewer and larger, hired farmworkers (2.7 million in 1979) are gradually replacing family members in the agricultural work force. Workers dependent on farmwork for their livelihood should be the focus of Government policy, rather than laborers doing farmwork on a casual or seasonal basis. Better information and more comprehensive data are needed to design laws to help solve the economic and social problems of farmworkers and their families

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  • Smith, Leslie Whitener & Coltrane, Robert, 1981. "Hired Farmworkers: Background and Trends for the Eighties," Rural Development Research Reports 333781, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:ersrdr:333781
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.333781
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    1. McElroy, Robert C. & Gavett, Earle E, 1965. "Termination of the Bracero Program: Some Effects on Farm Labor and Migrant Housing Needs," Agricultural Economic Reports 307309, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.
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