| American Guestworkers: Jamaicans and Mexicans in the U.S. Labor Market Contributor(s): Griffith, David (Author) |
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ISBN: 0271031883 ISBN-13: 9780271031880 Publisher: Penn State University Press OUR PRICE: $35.59 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2007 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Emigration & Immigration - Political Science | Labor & Industrial Relations |
| Dewey: 331.627 |
| Series: Rural Sociology |
| Physical Information: 0.68" H x 6.05" W x 9.05" (0.93 lbs) 256 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Chicano - Cultural Region - Mexican - Cultural Region - Caribbean & West Indies |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The H-2 program, originally based in Florida, is the longest running labor-importation program in the country. Over the course of a quarter-century of research, Griffith studied rural labor processes and their national and international effects. In this book, he 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 uniquely humanitarian stance, he considers the effects of the program on the laborers themselves. |
Contributor Bio(s): Griffith, David: - 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). |