American Guestworkers: Jamaicans and Mexicans in the U.S. Labor Market

by David Craig Griffith and David Griffith

Book Overview

The H-2 program, originally based in Florida, is the longest running labor-importation program in the country. Over the course of a quarter-century of research, Griffith studied rural labor processes and their national and international effects. In this book, he examines the socioeconomic effects of the H-2 program on both the areas where the laborers work and the areas they are from, and, taking a uniquely humanitarian stance, he considers the effects...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271031883
• ISBN13: 9780271031880
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"