"Farmworker" Essays and Research Papers

Sort By:
Satisfactory Essays
Good Essays
Better Essays
Powerful Essays
Best Essays
Page 5 of 25 - About 246 Essays
  • Good Essays

    Assault and Farmworkers According to Guillen’s argument about sexual assault‚ I agreed with the fact that female farmworkers can be vulnerable to sexual assault. She makes a strong argument by saying that it is not acceptable for farmworkers to be the poorest workforce. Mostly lots of people take farm workforce to another level to the point where they don’t get paid as much or at all. In this essay‚ I am going to give a breakdown on Guillen’s argument about sexual abuse to female farmworkers. Sexual

    Premium Gender Woman Female

    • 507 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    The topic that I was excited and eager to learn about was the farmworkers movement and what nonviolent acts were performed in order for this movement to become successful. Within the topic I decided to focus on Cesar Chavez and how his religious and Gandhian Principles inspired him to fight for the rights of those oppressed farmworkers who were living in poverty and poor conditions. When I began to research the necessary information to begin writing my essay I started off by going to the CSUMB

    Premium Writing Education Learning

    • 537 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    Immigrant Farm Workers as a Vulnerable Population Ronda LaVigne HCS 531 August 29‚ 2011 Doris Chimera‚ RN‚ MA‚ MHA Immigrant Farm Workers as a Vulnerable Population This essay will provide an overview of immigrant farm workers as an example of a vulnerable population in society. A sample population demographic and background information about the community provides characteristics and context about why this group constitutes a vulnerable population. A discussion

    Premium Poverty Agriculture Food security

    • 2067 Words
    • 9 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Farmworker Children Uprooted by California Rules” by Martha Mendoza examines the affects of migrant working on the children of Californian agricultural laborers. For instance‚ a Californian law that entails labor workers and their families must move at least 50 miles away from the federal labor camps. According to a worker at a department in California‚ the state Department of Housing and Community Development is not aware “of families being in jams or having a problem with moving away” due to the

    Premium United States Immigration to the United States California

    • 269 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    empowered farmworkers to participate in society and demand recognition via unity and non-violent action. The UFW trade journal‚ El Malcriado described the vision of their civil rights movement as follows: The only way that poor farmworkers can ever beat the rich growers‚ and to make the rich ranchers pay good wages is if all farmworkers get together in one big union….We are now stronger than ever….. We are now gaining unity through our union a union just for farmworkers‚ where farmworkers elect their

    Premium United States Mexico Native Americans in the United States

    • 2396 Words
    • 10 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Good Essays

    The Harvest

    • 925 Words
    • 4 Pages

    Samaria Social Stratification Professor Baker November 19‚ 2013 The Harvest Introduction The Harvest was an educational documentary film. The documentary talked about agriculture child labor in America and the effects it has on them and their families. In this paper it will explain how the documentary The Harvest ties into Gerhard Lenski’s theory of stratification‚ as well as the concept of social stratification. The Harvest documentary talked about The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and

    Premium Migrant worker Sociology

    • 925 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    Ceasar Chavez

    • 1597 Words
    • 4 Pages

    Cesario Estrada Chavez‚ the most important Latino leader in U.S. history‚ was born in Yuma‚ Arizona on March 31‚ 1927 to Librado Chavez and Juana Chavez. He was the second of 5 children. The Chavez family had a small farm‚ and ran a country store. As the Depression intensified and years of drought forced thousands off the land‚ the Chavez family lost both their farm and store in 1937. Cesar was 10 years old when the family packed up and headed for California.These were difficult years‚ sleeping

    Free United Farm Workers

    • 1597 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    Migrant Workers in the U.S. and China Jose Loera Nevada State College Abstract Many migrant workers in the U.S. tend to work in the agricultural industry as farmworkers‚ while migrant workers from China leave their rural farms to work in larger urbanized cities. Though roles seem to be reversed between the two groups‚ they have many similarities. The migrant workers from both the U.S. and China have significant impacts on their countries’ respective economies. In the process

    Premium United States Immigration to the United States European Union

    • 2337 Words
    • 10 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Good Essays

    increase to a dollar and ten cents an hour along with better living conditions. After ten days of picketing Filipino farmworkers finally accomplished what they were aiming

    Premium United States Trade union Employment

    • 918 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Dolores fought for what she believed in‚ she became the first civil right leader to fight for racial and labor justice for farmworkers. She played a major role in the life of farmworker and the Latino Hispanic community‚ because of her Mexican Americans wouldn’t be where they are today. She created the National Farmers Workers Association which gave rights to farmworkers who didn’t have right before. Because or her gender and ethnic backroad she had to deal with criticism. She didn’t let that

    Premium Film African American Black people

    • 396 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
Page 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 25