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Title Latino farmworkers in the Eastern United States : health, safety and justice / edited by Thomas A. Arcury, Sara A. Quandt
Published New York ; London : Springer, 2009

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Contents Introduction: Health, Safety and Justice -- Context -- Housing and Workplace Safety and Sanitation -- Pesticide Exposure -- Occupational Injuries and Illness -- Infectious Disease -- Mental Health -- The Health of Women and Children -- Advocacy and Intervention -- An Agenda for Justice
Summary States that Latino Farmworkers work at some of America's most hazardous jobs, have few protections, and receive some of the lowest wages. This book examines the health and living conditions of workers in agriculture, while advocating for equality
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Agricultural laborers -- Health and hygiene -- East (U.S.)
Agricultural laborers -- East (U.S.) -- Social conditions
Hispanic Americans -- Employment -- East (U.S.)
Hispanic Americans -- East (U.S.) -- Social conditions
Agriculture.
Social justice.
Hispanic Americans.
Occupational Exposure
Agriculture
Social Justice
Hispanic or Latino
Agricultural Workers' Diseases -- ethnology
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
farming (activity or system)
agriculture (discipline)
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Knowledge Capital.
Social justice
Hispanic Americans
Agriculture
Agricultural laborers -- Health and hygiene
Agricultural laborers -- Social conditions
Hispanic Americans -- Employment
Hispanic Americans -- Social conditions
SUBJECT United States
Subject East United States
Genre/Form dissertations.
Academic theses
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
Form Electronic book
Author Arcury, Thomas A., 1952-
Quandt, Sara A.
ISBN 9780387883472
0387883479
9781282019416
1282019414