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Garcia, Victor Quiroz.

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Surviving farm work: Economic strategies of Mexican and Mexican-American households in a rural Californian community.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Surviving farm work: Economic strategies of Mexican and Mexican-American households in a rural Californian community./
Author:	Garcia, Victor Quiroz.
Description:	417 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 53-09, Section: A, page: 3269.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International53-09A.
Subject:	Anthropology, Cultural. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9303188

Surviving farm work: Economic strategies of Mexican and Mexican-American households in a rural Californian community.
Garcia, Victor Quiroz.

Surviving farm work: Economic strategies of Mexican and Mexican-American households in a rural Californian community. - 417 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 53-09, Section: A, page: 3269.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Santa Barbara, 1992.

In the 1970s, Mexican and Mexican American resident farm workers in Guadalupe, California, fought for and won unprecedented wage increases and improvements in working conditions. However, a decade later, they found themselves underemployed and, once again, earning low wages. This study addresses why these workers find themselves in this dire situation, and more importantly, how they overcome it.Subjects--Topical Terms:

735016
Anthropology, Cultural.

Surviving farm work: Economic strategies of Mexican and Mexican-American households in a rural Californian community.
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500 $a Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 53-09, Section: A, page: 3269.
500 $a Chairman: Juan Vicente Palerm.
502 $a Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Santa Barbara, 1992.
520 $a In the 1970s, Mexican and Mexican American resident farm workers in Guadalupe, California, fought for and won unprecedented wage increases and improvements in working conditions. However, a decade later, they found themselves underemployed and, once again, earning low wages. This study addresses why these workers find themselves in this dire situation, and more importantly, how they overcome it.
520 $a The theoretical approach of this study is two-fold: one, to explain why the resident workers are unable to find gainful employment in the vegetable industry; and two, to explain how they overcome this major problem. In regards to the first, various explanations in the literature on diminishing employment opportunities and wages in agriculture are reviewed. From this inquiry, hypotheses on the subject are generated. In terms of the second, theories on household economies are examined. A set of hypotheses on resource use and income-generating activities are deduced from this examination.
520 $a Twenty households were studied using ethnographic methods, from which six were selected as case studies, and an additional 167 households were surveyed employing a questionnaire. The vegetable industry was examined employing qualitative means alone. The two studies--households and industry--were carried out from April, 1986, to April, 1988, in Guadalupe and the Santa Maria Valley.
520 $a The findings reveal that, in the 1980s, local growers, following the lead of agribusiness, replaced as many of their company crews as possible with non-company crews to roll-back the costs of farm labor. They also adopted field apparatuses in the harvesting and packing of select crops, and manned them with migratory crews, organized and hired by custom-harvesting or labor contracting companies. Consequently, today, resident farm workers are unable to find employment, in spite of the availability of jobs, and when they do find work, they earn low wages and do not receive benefits.
520 $a The findings also show that resident farm worker households pull through the hard times by keeping their living costs to a minimum and by drawing on local resources to pursue various income-generating activities. In addition, the households seek assistance from state and private social service programs. Together, these economic practices allow farm workers to survive under-employment, unemployment, and low wages.
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