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Importing poverty? : immigration and the changing face of rural America
- Title
- Importing poverty? : immigration and the changing face of rural America / Philip Martin.
- Author
- Martin, Philip L., 1949-
- Publication
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2009], ©2009.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | JV6456 .M36 2009 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xxi, 242 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-230) and index.
- Contents
- Foreword / Ray Marshall -- Prologue: Coming to America -- Pt. 1. Immigration and Agriculture -- 1. Immigration to the United States -- 2. Agriculture and Migrants -- Pt. 2. The Changing Face of Rural America -- 3. California Fruits and Vegetables -- 4. Florida Sugar, Oranges, and Tomatoes -- 5. Meat and Poultry -- Pt. 3. Migrant Integration -- 6. Seasonal Worker Mobility -- 7. Migrants: The Integration Challenge -- Pt. 4. Whither Rural America? -- 8. Labor Shortages, Mechanization, and Food Costs -- 9. Reforming U.S. Immigration Policies -- 10. Regularize and Rationalize Farm Labor -- Epilogue: The Great Migration -- Appendix I. Farm Employment, Immigration, and Poverty.
- ISBN
- 9780300139174 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0300139179 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2008045622
- 40016513392
- OCLC
- ocn262432312
- 262432312
- SCSB-5462274
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries