Unseasonal Migrations: The Effects of Rural Labor Scarcity in Peru

by Jane L. Collins

Book Overview

Jane Collins explores a phenomenon of growing importance in developing nations--the labor scarcity that emerges as farmers in Latin America and elsewhere are forced by economic necessity to seek seasonal work away from their home communities. Such labor scarcity often results in "unseasonal" ecological damage and the deterioration of social relations. Professor Collins focuses on a particular instance in which migration has created labor scarcity:...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691600589
• ISBN13: 9780691600581
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"