On the Road for Work : Migratory Workers on the East Coast of the United States

1. The Plight of the Migratory Farm Worker.- 1. The Unknown Rural Poor.- 2. Problems in Migratory Life.- 3. Migratory Farm Workers, Migrants, and Migration Theory.- 2. Migratory Farm Workers: Their History and Socioeconomic Context.- 1. The Agricultural Revolution.- 2. Exclusion of Farm Workers from Social Legislation.- 3. Foreign Farm Workers in the United States.- 3.1. Importing and Exploiting Ethnic Groups in Farm Labor: 1776 through the Depression.- 3.2. Regulating Farm Labor: World War II and Thereafter.- 4. The East Coast Stream of Migratory Farm Workers.- 4.1. Migratory Patterns in the United States.- 4.2. Development of the East Coast Stream.- 4.3. The People Involved.- 4.4. Operation of the Migratory System.- 4.5. Work in the Fields.- 4.6. Life "on the Season".- 3. Unemployment Insurance in Agriculture: Recent Policies and the 1970 Survey.- 1. Why Farm Workers Were Excluded from Unemployment Insurance.- 2. The Changing Political and Social Climate.- 3. Action taken by Congress: Legislation and a Survey.- 4. Aims and Results of the 1970 Survey.- 4. Mobility of the Migratory Farm Worker.- 1. Traveling to Find Work.- 1.1. Migration during the Depression Years.- 1.2. Migratory Workers on the East Coast.- 1.3. Mobility and Worker Characteristics.- 2. The Degree of Mobility in the East Coast Migratory Stream.- 2.1. The Sample.- 2.2. Analysis of the Migratory Patterns.- 3. Worker Characteristics and the Degree of Interstate Mobility.- 4. Mobility Reappraised.- 5. Differences in the Earnings of Migratory Farm Workers.- 1. Diverse Factors Affecting Earnings.- 2. The Earnings Function: Methodology.- 3. The Migratory Farm Worker Model.- 4. The Nonmigratory Farm Worker Model.- 5. Conclusions: Unequal Opportunities in Farm Work.- 6. Migratory and Nonmigratory Farm Workers: A Comparison.- 1. Occupational Opportunities and the Migratory Farm Worker.- 2. Migratory Status and Farm Worker Characteristics.- 2.1. Ethnic Group Membership and Migratory Status.- 2.2. Education, Occupational Skills, and Migratory Status.- 2.3 Social Background and Migratory Status.- 2.4. Age and Migratory Status.- 2.5. Family Characteristics and Migratory Status.- 3. Ethnicity: the Determinant Factor.- 7. Conclusions and Policy Implications.- 1. The Most Significant Findings.- 2. Interpreting the Findings in Terms of Policy Implications.- 2.1. Discrimination in Agriculture.- 2.2. Structural Problems.- 2.3. The Inefficacy of the Policies and Proposals.- 3. The Future of Migratory Farm Work.- Appendix A: Questionnaire.- Appendix B.- Appendix C: Logarithmic Forms of the Earnings Functions.