Random Facts and Terms | Agricultural Organisations and Laws | Terms and Titles | Time Periods | True or False |
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What is migrant farm work
This type of job has been identified as the worst single profession in the US (hint 2 words)
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What is the New Deal
A series of domestic programs led by Roosevelt in the 1930s
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What is a coyote
these people help people cross the border illegally, also the name of an animal
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The New Deal Era
Important era of the 1930s for worker's rights
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What is true
Farmworker supporters concentrate their efforts on living conditions
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Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala
Most undocumented immigrants today are from this North American and these 2 central American countries
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What is The Fair Labor Standards Acts
the centerpiece of the New deal that established minimum wages for workers
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What is riteros
small unlicensed operators who transport workers to and from the fields in vans/cars they have bought themselves
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What is the Progressive Era
This era's main achievement was workers' compensation
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What is false
Federal laws protecting employees benefited most farmworkers
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What is contractor system
many farms operate under this system as it aids bring migrant workers directly to the farms
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Farm Labor Contractor Registration Act(FLCRA)
First federal law regulation working and living conditions of Farmworkers passed by Congress in 1963
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What is compadres
Latino contractors are often asked to become ___, to baptize one of their worker's children and thereby establish a formal relationship of trust
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What is the 1990s
Political participation by farmworkers became more difficult in these years
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What is false
Farmworkers benefited greatly from the period of transformation in the industrial work place
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What is the ritero system
system used to transport farmworkers used by many contractors and growers, technically not legal
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What is the Federal Department of Labor
Government agency involved in issues of workplace safety under the Occupational Safety and Health Administration
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what is crewleaders
these "managers" are generally armed and rely on groups of thugs to assault those workers who refuse to cooperate,
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What is the New Deal
The majority of employment rights trace their origin to this time period
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What is false
Farmworkers are well equipped to overcome political efforts of agri-buisness
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what is debt peonage
a method of debt repayment in which an individual makes his payments to a creditor by physical labor, often associated with African American workers in America's history
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What is the National Labor Relations Act
The passage of this Act granted industrial workers the right to collectively bargain, really giving unions a chance to prosper, also called the Wagner Act
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What is agricultural exceptionalism
This term was introduced to describe how farm labor is not subject to the same regulations as the labor in other industries
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What is the bracero program
Operating between 1942 and 1964 this program allowed the entry of million of Mexican guest workers
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What is true
Over 40% of workers' wages goes to taxes, worker's compensation insurance and employment insurance
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