Seasonal Agricultural Labor Markets in the United States

摘要

The report is a series of papers devoted to seasonal agricultural labor markets. The titles of the papers are as follows: Introduction to the Seasonal Farm Labor Problem; Some Analytical Approaches for Human Resource Issues of Seasonal Farm Labor; Seasonality of Farm Labor Use Patterns in the United States; Migration in Farm Labor Markets; The Off-Farm Work of Hired Farmworkers; Nonimmigrant Aliens in American Agriculture; Labor Supply Uncertainty and Technology Adoption; An Intertemporal Approach to Seasonal Agricultural Labor Markets; Unstructured Labor Markets and Alternative Labor Market Forms; Occupational Structure and the Industrialization of Agriculture; The California Agricultural Labor Relations Act and National Agricultural Labor Relations Legislation; Impact of Labor Laws and Regulations on Agricultural Labor Markets; Farmworker Service and Employment Programs; Seasonal Farm Labor and U.S. Farm Policy; and a Summary. The orientation of the document is toward the consideration of policy alternatives, data needs, and research needs.