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Author:

Martin, Philip L., 1949-

Title:

The new rural poverty : agriculture & immigration in California / Philip Martin, Michael Fix, & J. Edward Taylor.

Publisher:

Urban Institute Press,

Copyright Date:

c2006

Description:

xi, 121 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Migrant agricultural laborers--United States.
Rural poor--United States.
Alien labor, Mexican--United States.
Agriculture--United States.
United States--Rural conditions.

Other Authors:

Fix, Michael.
Taylor, J. Edward.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [109]-111) and index.

Contents:

Immigrants and 21st century agriculture -- Migrants in U.S. agriculture -- Farm employment, immigration, and poverty -- California : inland agricultural valleys -- California : coastal agricultural valleys -- The changing face outside California -- The quest for AgJOBS -- Importing workers, integrating immigrants.

ISBN:

9780877667292 (alk. paper)
0877667292 (alk. paper)

LCCN:

2005035512

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

POAX626 -- Jessop-Bruner Library (University Park)