Reports and Articles Concerning Farmworkers
NAWS Report on Farmworker Demographics.
Findings from
the National Agricultural Workers Survey (NAWS) 2001 - 2002. A
Demographic and Employment Profile of United States Farm Workers.
U.S. Department of Labor, Office of the Assistant Secretary for
Policy, Office of Programmatic Policy, Research Report No. 9. March
2005.
http://www.doleta.gov/agworker/report9/toc.cfm
For previous reports, please visit:
http://www.doleta.gov/agworker/naws.cfm
USDA
National Agricultural Statistics Service
(NASS) Reports
The USDA NASS
quarterly report on farm labor includes the survey of farm wages on
which the DOL bases its H-2A adverse effect wage rate. All NASS
reports are available free of charge on the internet at:
http://www.nass.usda.gov. The most recent National
Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) reports on hired farmworkers
are at this link:
http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/reports/nassr/other/pfl-bb/2006/
U.S. Department of Labor, Report to Congress,
The Agricultural Labor Market - Status and Recommendations,
December 2000, available at
http://migration.ucdavis.edu/rmn/word-etc/dec_2000_labor.htm
Report, "A
Profile of U.S. Farm Workers," 1997 report
by the Department of Labor Office of the Assistant Secretary for
Policy
http://www.dol.gov/asp/programs/agworker/report/main.htm
U.S.
General Accounting Office (GAO) Reports on
farmworkers and the H-2A guestworker program:
·
The
H-2A Program (Dec. 31, 1997) - http://www.gao.gov/archive/1998/he98020.pdf
·
H-2A
Agricultural Guestworkers: Status of Changes to Improve Program
Services (June 15, 2000) - http://www.gao.gov/archive/2000/he00134t.pdf
The
International Labor Organization,
http://www.us.ilo.org/, has published materials on agricultural
workers. These reports include:
·
"Wage Workers in Agriculture: Conditions of Employment and Work,"
Geneva,
TMAWW/1996, and the related "Note on the Proceedings: Tripartite
Meeting on Improving the Conditions of employment and Work of
Agricultural Wage Workers in the Context of Economic Restructuring,"
Geneva, 23-27 September 1996, TMAWW/1996/14.
·
"Safety and Health in Agriculture," Report VI (1), International
Labour Conference, 88th Session 2000, Sixth Item on the Agenda,
Geneva 1999. http://www.ilo.org/public/english/standards/relm/ilc/ilc88/rep-vi-1.htm
·
"The Rights of Migrant Workers: A Guide to ILO Standards for the
Use of Migrant Workers and Their Organizations,"
Geneva
1986
From Orchards to the Internet: Confronting Contingent Work Abuses,
March 2002, with Catherine K. Ruckelshaus of the National Employment
Law Project; a report funded by the Ford Foundation based on the
Subcontracted Worker Initiative Strategy Forums, co-sponsored by
Farmworker Justice and NELP, and held in Washington, D.C. and
Berkeley, Calif. Available online at
www.nelp.org .
"Pesticides: Improvements Needed to Ensure the Safety of Farmworkers
and Their Children." By U.S. General Accounting Office
www.gao.gov , a report to
Congress. RCED-00-40. 27 pp. plus 3 appendices (7 pp.) March 14,
2000. Available online at
http:\\www.gao.gov/new.items/rc00040.pdf
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