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Philip Martin

The Prosperity Paradox

Fewer and More Vulnerable Farm Workers

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Why do farm workers become more vulnerable as countries get richer? As countries get richer, the share of workers employed in agriculture falls. In richer countries, hired farm workers do ever more of the work on the fewer and larger farms that produce most farm commodities.These hired workers are among the most vulnerable. They include local workers who lack the skills and contacts needed to get nonfarm jobs that usually offer higher wages and more opportunities as well as legal and unauthorized migrants from poorer countries who may not know or exercise their labor-related rights. Government enforcement of labor laws depends on complaints,… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-19-263810-6
  • EAN: 9780192638106
  • Produktnummer: 35024660
  • Verlag: Oxford University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
  • Seitenangabe: 224 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 1'899 KB

Über den Autor


Philip Martin is Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California-Davis. He edits Rural Migration News (http://migration.ucdavis.edu), has served on several federal commissions, testifies frequently before Congress, and works for UN agencies around the world on labor and migration issues. Martin is an award-winning author whose research focuses on the impacts of migrant workers on labor markets in destination countries, the effects ofemigration and remittances on sending countries, and the recruitment business that moves workers over borders.

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