|
150,000 to 200,000 migrant and seasonal farm workers and their families annually travel and work in Florida. The migrant labor camp program currently issues over 700 permits in 33 counties ensuring that 34,000 migrant and seasonal farm workers, and families live in housing that meets or exceeds standards set by law.
|
www.doh.state.fl.us/environment/community/migrant-labor...
www.doh.state.fl.us/environment/community/migrant-labor/index.html
|
|
|
|
Migrant Labor in the United States; Recent estimates by the U.S. Department of Labor suggest that approximately 1.3 million U.S. citizens migrate between states, earning their living by working in the agricultural industry.
|
www.pbs.org/now/politics/migrants.html
www.pbs.org/now/politics/migrants.html
|
|
|
|
of Labor, Migrant & Seasonal Farm Workers Program; FINGERS TO THE BONE: UNITED STATES FAILURE TO PROTECT CHILD FARMWORKERS ; Rural Migration News, UC Davis; United Farmworkers; "Modern Day Slavery," PALM BEACH POST Special Report;
|
www.pbs.org/now/politics/migrantchildren.html
www.pbs.org/now/politics/migrantchildren.html
|
|
|
America's Best Political Newsletter. ... Clearly, Israel has easy access to willing labor, so why does Israel maintain such a large migrant labor force? The principal reason has little to do with the lack of a local workforce. The migrant workers are simply cheaper and easier to exploit.
|
www.counterpunch.org/preminger08202009.html
|
|
This collection of 63 photographic prints of various sizes documents migrant labor camps in California. The photographs were taken in 1935-1936, many likely by Harry Everett Drobish. Included are photographs of groups and buildings at the Arvin Migratory Labor Camp and other camps in Kern County, California.
|
www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf738nb5fr
|
|
Labor camps; Labor camps -- Toilet facilities; Migrant agricultural laborers; ... Migrant labor camp after fire (general view) ... to; Migrant labor camp...
|
www.lib.utexas.edu/photodraw/sanchez/migrant_camps.html
www.lib.utexas.edu/photodraw/sanchez/migrant_camps.html
|
|
All will exacerbate our current immigration issues by displacing thousands of workers and farmers, most of whom will join the cross-border flow of migrant labor that already tops 200 million people worldwide.
|
www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=trading_on_migrant...
www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=trading_on_migrant_labor
|
|
2008 Licensed Migrant Housing Sites (by County); Allegan; 03-0004 Adkin Blue Ribbon Packing Lee 18 659 60th St 02-Jul-08 15-Sep-08 81 12; 03-0033 Adkin Blue Ribbon Packing Casco 15 6557 106th Ave 19-Jun-08 15-Sep-08 56 8;
|
www.michigan.gov/documents/MDA_CampList_147070_7.pdf
|
|
2. When used in this Act: "Migrant Labor Camp" means one or more buildings, structures, tents, trailers or vehicles or any combination thereof together with the land appertaining thereto established, operated or maintained as living quarters for ten or more migrant workers or 4 or more families containing...
|
www.ilga.gov/legislation/ilcs/ilcs3.asp?ActID=1240&Chap...
www.ilga.gov/legislation/ilcs/ilcs3.asp?ActID=1240&ChapAct=210%26nbsp%3BILCS%26nbsp%3B110%2F&ChapterID=21&ChapterName=HEALTH+FACILITIES&ActName=Illinois+Migrant+Labor+Camp+Law%2E
|
|
