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Labor waste in New York: Rural exploitation and migrant workers

By overlooking his inefficiency the migrant employer is harming himself and exploiting the laborer

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Further Reading Suggested by the Author

  • Men on the Move by Nels Anderson (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1940). Although outdated, this is a definitive sociological work on agricultural workers.

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  • The Slaves We Rent by Truman Moore (New York: Random House, 1965) is a first-class journalistic account of the situation of migrant workers throughout the country.

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  • The Ground Is Our Table by Steve Allen (New York: Doubleday, 1966). Written in anger from his personal experiences with poverty, this book focuses on agricultural labor in the Southwest and includes an enthusiastic endorsement of the Chavez organization.

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  • Farmers, Workers and Machines: Technological and Social Change in Farm Industries of Arizona by Harland Padfield and William E. Martin (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1965). This book contains economic data on various crops and also empirical data on agricultural workers in Arizona with special emphasis on differences in ethnic groups.

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  1. New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University, USA

    William H. Friedland (Associate professor)

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Friedland, W.H. Labor waste in New York: Rural exploitation and migrant workers. Trans-action 6, 48–53 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02806275

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