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Evaluation of Heat Stress in Migrant Farmworkers
<p>The rate of heat-related fatalities in crop production workers is almost 20 times that of other industries. Heat stress was investigated in migrant tomato workers in July, 2012, using measurements of body temperature, heart rates, body weight loss, evaluation of the thermal environment, and …
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Health Care Access and Utilization by U.S. Farmworkers
… rate among all United States industries. Farmworkers experience high rates of occupational injury, illness, and mortality, yet have limited access to health care. Implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010 increased health care accessibility and …
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Female migrant farmworkers: The meaning of health within the culture of transience
Hispanic, female migrant farmworkers' definition of health was described through an ethnographic study. Previous studies regarding definitions of health have routinely asked persons to rate their state of health within an undefined category. For this study, thirty-two migrant farmworker women …
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Implementing legislative mandate : protecting migrant and seasonal farmworkers from occupational pesticide exposure
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1981.
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Exploit the Land, Exploit the People: The Treadmill of Production and Community Advocates for Farmworkers in Texas
… interviews with 16 community advocates for farmworkers in Texas. The results of these interviews demonstrate that community advocates face factors limiting their resistance to the treadmill, including: funding restrictions, the structure of the agricultural industry in Texas, socio-cultural …
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The 10th anniversary of the uprising: Post the De Doorns strikes how has organising changed for farmworkers in the Western Cape
During apartheid farmworkers in South Africa were barred from organising. After the political transition in 1993 labour legislations were extended to farmworkers which included: the Basic Conditions of Employment Act of 1998, the Labour Relations Act 66 of 1995, which extended the right to organise …
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The Geography of Farmworker Health: A Mixed-Method Exploratory Analysis of Chronic Disease
… and low social status, migratory and seasonal farmworkers (MSFW) are a critical and underappreciated component to the agriculture industry in the United States. Despite advances in knowledge of about the health needs of this population, identifying geographic regions of high-risk remains a …
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"What We Eat Matters": Perspectives on Food and Health in the Mexican Im/migrant Farmworker Communities in Indian River County, Florida
… in the U.S., especially among Mexican im/migrant farmworkers. Anthropological scholarship shows that health issues within im/migrant groups in the U.S. are poorly understood from a sociocultural and local perspective. In Indian River County, Florida, farmworker leaders created a community garden …
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From Field to Home: Assessing Air Infiltration and Soil Track-in Transport Pathways of Agricultural Pesticides into Farmworkers' Home and Identifying Risk Factors for Increased In-Home Pesticide Levels
Farmworkers and their families may experience increased levels of agricultural pesticides in their homes due to both (1) take-home/soil track-in on shoes, clothes and skin, and (2) air infiltration from nearby agriculture fields via agricultural pesticide drift in the vapor phase or adhered to …
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Participation in a shifting global context? A case study of labor and faith in the American South
… services as well as spiritual support to migrant farmworkers living abroad. While faith-based organizations and/or ministries are key to supporting migrant and/or refugee populations in the U.S., scholars have conducted little research on these institutions, especially those that seek to encourage …
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Restructuring paternalism : the changing nature of labour control on wine farms in Koelenhof
… has improved working and living conditions for farmworkers, it has not necessarily reduced the dependency of farmworkers on the farmers, nor empowered workers. 5. Farmworkers have themselves internalised the ideology of 'enlightened' paternalism, with this ideology being fundamental in …
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Water dispossession at the Llano en Llamas : a research study by a daughter of Mexican farmworkers in the land of her consciousness
In 1953, Juan Rulfo, one of the most important Latin American writers of the 20th century presents, El Llano en Llamas (Burning Plain), a collection of realistic short stories about rural life in the land of his childhood in Jalisco, Mexico. About 60 years after El Llano en Llamas, this daughter of …
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Cultivations on the frontiers of modernity : power, welfare and belonging on commercial farms before and after "fast-track land reform" in Zimbabwe
… relations between white farm owners and black farmworkers in Zimbabwe have been explored by scholars such as Clarke (1977), Loewenson (1992), Amanor-Wilks (1995), Tandon (2001) and especially Rutherford (2001a). While most focus on the capitalist exploitation of farmworkers and forms of …
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Agricultural change and farmworker living standards in post-apartheid South Africa
… these changes with the prospects of low-income farmworkers and farm dwellers through exploring two interlinked questions. The first of these asks whether consolidation in the industry has extended to growing firm size and in-turn, whether farmworkers in larger firms earn higher wages than those …
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Determination of the occurrence, virulence genes, and antimicrobial resistance profiles of enterococcus faecalis and enterococcus faecium isolated from poultry of Chongwe, Lusaka, Kitwe, and Ndola districts, farmworkers from the Copperbelt province poultry farms and clinical specimens from Kitwe teaching hospital in Zambia.
… of Chongwe, Lusaka, Kitwe, and Ndola Districts, Farmworkers from the Copperbelt Province Poultry Farms, and Clinical Specimens from Kitwe Teaching Hospital in Zambia. A total of 833 samples comprising 492 poultry droppings, 108 urine, and 3 rectal swabs from farmworkers, and 138 urines, 89 stool, …
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The relationship between MMPI scores and training center achievement of migrant and seasonal farmworker families
… than are families classified as seasonal farmworkers. A need was perceived for further research investigating the differences between migrants and seasonal farmworkers and for further development and testing of paired spouse MMPI profiles as an approach to measuring family characteristics.
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Latino encounters: Mexicans, Tejanos, and Puerto Ricans in postwar Michigan, 1929-1971
… questions the center of labor organization among farmworkers. I show that farmworkers organized themselves through transnational networks. These workers not only advocated for labor rights independently but developed forms of communication and popular culture that transcended a singular expression …
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Transforming food politics: community to community's intersectional ecofeminism and food sovereignty
… of women, to support and fight alongside farmworkers, and to take care of the environment. Their work is grounded in ecofeminism, and ultimately strives for food sovereignty. Semi-structured interviews with members of Community to Community were conducted to explore perceptions of their …
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Investigating Seasonal and Occupational Trends of Five Organophosphate Pesticides in House Dust in the Lower Yakima Valley, WA
… pesticide exposure among children of Hispanic Farmworkers. This research uses dust samples collected in the CHC pesticide research project to identify the episodic nature of OP exposures. The CHC study collected house and vehicle dust samples, urine, saliva, and blood samples from participants …
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