Findings from the National Agricultural Workers Survey (NAWS) 1997-1998: ADemographic and Employment Profile of United States Farmworkers

摘要

This is Report Number 8 in a series of publications based on the findings of theNational Agricultural Workers Survey (NAWS), a nationwide, random survey on the demographic and employment characteristics of hired crop workers. This report, like those before it, finds that several long-standing trends characterizing the farm labor workforce and the farm labor market continue. It finds that farmworker wages have stagnated, annual earnings remain below the poverty level, farmworkers experience chronic underemployment and that the farm workforce increasingly consists of young, single males who are recent immigrants.