book chapter
The Puerto Rican farmworker: from exploitation to unionization
Labor migration under capitalism : the Puerto Rican experience, by City University of New York. Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños. History Task Force • New York • Published In 1979 • Pages: 238-264
By: Rivera, Felipe.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document presents a detailed study of the plight of the migrant Puerto Rican farmworker on the United States mainland ranging in extent from conditions of exploitation to that of unionization. Income, labor laws, working conditions, labor contracts, and unemployment are all discussed in this work, and a profile is drawn depicting the typical Puerto Rican worker. Appendices present detailed information on two examples of labor contracts and agreements between employers in the United States and the Puerto Rican Commonwealth Government.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Labor
- Labor supply and employment
- Wages and salaries
- Labor relations
- Labor organization
- Contracts
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Puerto Ricans (Mainland)
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2002
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Businessperson
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1992
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] Felipe Rivera
- For complete bibliography see category 113, document 16: City University, pp. 265-278
- Includes bibliographical references.
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 78013918
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Puerto Ricans--Employment