To see the other types of publications on this topic, follow the link: Agricultural laborers.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Agricultural laborers'
Create a spot-on reference in APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, and other styles
Consult the top 50 dissertations / theses for your research on the topic 'Agricultural laborers.'
Next to every source in the list of references, there is an 'Add to bibliography' button. Press on it, and we will generate automatically the bibliographic reference to the chosen work in the citation style you need: APA, MLA, Harvard, Chicago, Vancouver, etc.
You can also download the full text of the academic publication as pdf and read online its abstract whenever available in the metadata.
Browse dissertations / theses on a wide variety of disciplines and organise your bibliography correctly.
1
Patton, Luke. "Organizing the unorganized the Coalition of Immokalee Workers and Latino migrant farm labor in the 21st century /." Diss., Connect to the thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10066/1397.
Full text
2
Toni, Fabiano. "State-society relations on the agricultural frontier the struggle for credit in the Transamazônica region /." [Florida] : State University System of Florida, 1999. http://etd.fcla.edu/etd/uf/1999/amg2051/toni%5Ff.pdf.
Full text
3
Marentes, Cynthia P. "Campesina cuentos a rhetorical analysis of female farmworkers' narratives of marginalization, resistance, and empowerment /." To access this resource online via ProQuest Dissertations and Theses @ UTEP, 2008. http://0-proquest.umi.com.lib.utep.edu/login?COPT=REJTPTU0YmImSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&clientId=2515.
Full text
4
Aʻsar, Khadījah Muḥammad. "Sūq al-ʻamālah al-zirāʻīyah fī Miṣr khilāla fatrat al-sabʻīnāt dirāsah taḥlīlīyah /." [Cairo] : al-Hayʼah al-Miṣrīyah al-ʻĀmmah lil-Kitāb, 1991. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/26745005.html.
Full text
5
Petersen, Emelda. "A theoretical framework for the labour relations between the farmer and farm workers during industrial strike actions." Thesis, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11838/2671.
Full textAbstract:
Thesis (MTech (Public Management))--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2017.The purpose of this study was to analyse the labour relations of the workers in the agricultural sector, with reference to the De Doors area in the Western Cape. Despite the political, social and economic changes to better the lives of the farm workers that have been implemented to rectify the inequalities of the past, the labour conditions on farms stayed unchanged. It is evident that there is a gap in the labour relations in the agricultural sector, due to the 2012/13 strike actions that took place. Qualitative research methodology was employed in the study; it provided the researcher with the opportunity to personally interact with the farm workers. It further allowed the researcher to gain a holistic understanding of the daily lives of the farm workers which would foster a better understanding of their daily struggles. Interviews were used as method of data collection. This methodology also enables the researcher to interpret and describe the actions of participants. Good labour relations play a vital role in any industry or organisation. Farm workers are generally classified as vulnerable and the most exploited group of the South African society. They often work irregular hours throughout the year in various weather settings. Regardless of the physical strain that their jobs entail, farm workers earn a low wage and are often deprived of the basic benefits that an employee should be entitled to. This was the reason the farm workers embarked on a strike in 2012/13. The researcher proposed recommendations to the Agricultural department on how to improve the labour relations on the farms in the De Doorns area by suggesting that more labour inspectors are being employed to oversee that legislation are implemented. Skills Development needs to be become compulsory for all farm workers as farming is becoming more technological. Skills Development unlocks talents and creative energy for the farm workers which have a positive impact on production.
6
Mathenge, Mary W. Kiiru. "Essays on off-farm labor market participation, farm production decisions and household economic wellbeing empirical evidence from rural Kenya /." Diss., Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users, 2008.
Find full text
7
梁佩雯. "打造農民工? : 中國貴州宜田縣農村中學生參與農民工培訓個案研究 = The making of peasant workers? : a case study of pre-migration training programs for rural students in Yitian County, Guizhou Province, China." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2008. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/854.
Full text
8
Leiprecht, Ingrid. "Sectoral adjustment in the Polish labour market 1992-1995 a microeconometric analysis with special reference to agricultural employment /." München : Ifo Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, 2000. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/46781926.html.
Full text
9
Galaviz, Marisela. "Evaluating the effectiveness of the College Assistance Migrant Program student handbook." Menomonie, WI : University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2005. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2005/2005galavizm.pdf.
Full text
10
Bellenger, Moriah J. Fields Deacue. "Selected topics in Alabama's environmental horticulture industry the economic impact of Alabama's green industry and migrant labor in Alabama's horticulture industry /." Auburn, Ala., 2005. http://repo.lib.auburn.edu/2005%20Summer/master's/BELLENGER_MORAIH_40.pdf.
Full text
11
Liao, Chen-Yuan. "Design, development and evaluation of educational, training and motivational initiatives for farm stockpeople and animal carers in Taiwan." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2002. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=158845.
Full textAbstract:
The focus of this thesis is the poor competitive position of the pig industry in Taiwan and the design and evaluation of initiatives to improve the situation. To address these problems, this study set out to design and evaluate educational, training and motivational initiatives for pig farm managers and stockpeople and also for personnel involved in transport of pigs and in the handling of pigs in abattoirs and auction markets. Almost all the participants (99%) found the Pre-Training meetings helpful in preparing them for the training and in providing them with the opportunity to contribute to the planning of the Training Courses and the motivational initiatives. The majority of the participants (53%) wished to have science based Training Courses at frequent (every 1 to 3 months) intervals. There was very strong support (90%) for a progressive career ladder for stockpeople, the award of ‘advancement’ certificates and more appropriate job titles to reflect the considerable knowledge and skills of good stockpeople. Although there was strong overall support for the training and motivational initiatives and their impacts, this was greater on family farms than on company farms. The training resulted in a considerable increase in knowledge as reflected by the increase in Post Course relative to Pre Course Test Scores. Increases in Test Scores for family (60.2 v 91.2) and company farms (58.7 v 89.2) was 51 and 52% respectively. Responses to the same questionnaire completed both before and after training indicated that while both the job satisfaction and morale was increased significantly after training on family farms, this was not the case on company farms. However, there was very strong evidence on both family and company farms that training significantly (p<0.001) increased both awareness of animal welfare and the determination to improve animal welfare.
12
Morren, Carel-Jan Hendrikus. "Die bepaling van sekere plaagdoderreste in die bloed van plaaswerkers op appelplase in die Elgin-distrik." Thesis, Cape Technikon, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11838/1478.
Full textAbstract:
Thesis (Masters Diploma (Technology)--Cape Technikon, Cape Town,1994Pesticides are generally used in south-Africa for the control of various pests; from insects and fungi to weeds. The agricultural industry is probably the biggest user of pesticides and therefore workers in this part of the labour force have the biggest risk of being exposed to the hazards of these essential products. During the 1988/89 deciduous fruit season the deciduous fruit industry earned approximately R1000 million in foreign exchange. It is therefore very important for this industry to produce fruit of high quality in a very competitive market. Of the total deciduous exports, apples comprised approximately 62,5%. The EIgin-Grabouw area is the biggest producer of apples. This industry is clearly very dependant on pesticides to protect its crops against pests. From time to time farm - workers are exposed to pesticides, a study was therefore performed to access the levels of exposure of farm workers. Blood and urine samples were collected in a comprehensive biological monitoring program in the Elgin area to determine, uusing clinical tests, the level of exposure to pesticides. It was decided later that the determination of pesticide residues in blood would form part of this main study. Other tests included serum and red cell cholinesterase. Samples were collected during August (start of spraying season), November (midseason) and February (end of spraying season). A multi-residue method was developed to extract organophosphate and organochlorine pesticides in whole blood. Although various methods exist, they allow only for the extraction of either organophosphates or organochlorines and not multi-residue extractions. This multi-residue method is based on the liquid/liquid extraction of a blood/Celite/ethanol mixture to extract the following pesticides: Azinphos-methyl, Chlorpyrifos, Endosulfan, Methidathion and Prothiophos. The pesticide residue levels were determined on gas chromatographs equipped with DB-5 and DB-2I0 capillary columns and flame photometric-, electron capture- and nitrogen/phosphorous detectors. The results were confirmed on a gas chromatograph with mass-selective detector in selective ion mode. Of the 402 blood samples analysed, 23 samples showed positive for organophoshates and 29 for organochlorines, and were sent for analysis on the mass spectrometer. Of those samples only one could be positively identified. The presence of the pesticide Endosulfan-B was confirmed. The confirmation of the pesticides was complicated by interfering substances that leached from the rubber stoppers of the collection vessels into the blood. Although the study showed that for practical purposes no pesticides were present, other important information was obtained about the handling and analyses of blood samples for pesticides.
13
Shepherd, Josh. "Attitudes and opinions of agricultural growers in Texas regarding guest worker policy /." View online, 2007. http://ecommons.txstate.edu/arp/261.
Full text
14
Danziger, Renée. "Dimensions of powerlessness : a study of agricultural workers in post-war England." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1986. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:543a07f7-a9eb-46f0-83ea-166c638ec7b9.
Full textAbstract:
This inquiry into the nature of political powerlessness begins with a definition which posits that Q is politically powerless to the extent that it is unable to promote and defend its interests within authoritative processes of value allocation. Political powerlessness is said to derive from Q's lack of relevant power resources; and from T's exploitation of this deficiency through its exercise of power over Q. Contrary to pluralist assumptions, it is argued that T may exercise political power over Q both within and beyond formal arenas of value allocation: the determining factor is not where political power is exercised, but rather that it prevents Q from satisfying its interests within these authoritative arenas. The above hypotheses are tested for their validity and utility by being applied to the experiences of the post-war agricultural work force in England. In particular, the study asks whether farmworkers' workplace powerlessness, as identified by Howard Newby in 'The Deferential Worker' (Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1979), has been compensated for by their Union's promotion and defence of agricultural workers' occupational interests at the formal, political level. Part One provides a theoretical, historical and descriptive setting for the empirical study. Part Two determines the extent to which the efforts of the Union and of its external political allies to influence the relevant value allocating institutions have resulted in the successful promotion and defence of farmworkers' objective interests. These interests are defined as: earning high wages (Chapter Four); living in housing which is independent from employment (Chapter Five); and ensuring a reasonable standard of occupational health and safety (Chapter Six). The study shows that the farmworkers' Union has been largely unable to compensate for its members' industrial weakness by taking political action. The Union's political powerlessness is attributed chiefly to its lack of relevant power resources; and to its resulting vulnerability to power exercises both within and beyond the formal political arena, all of which have weakened the Union within that arena. It is suggested finally that the Union's recent merger with the Transport and General Workers' Union provides farmworkers with access to new power resources which may allow for greater success in the future promotion of farmworkers' occupational interests.
15
Goodman, Bruce (Bruce Edward) Carleton University Dissertation Geography. "Gardening Guatemala: the influence of export vegetables on land and labour relations in the Mayan highlands." Ottawa, 1992.
Find full text
16
Kirwan, Susanne. "Best uses of labour for animal welfare and productuvity in extensive sheep farming systems in Britain." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2010. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=136665.
Full textAbstract:
In relation to hill sheep, the perception is that they live to a high welfare standard with minimal labour input per ewe, and that there is little reason for concern. This perception has however not been confirmed by science to date, chiefly due to a lack of research interest into the hill sheep sector. Meanwhile, extensive sheep farming faces increasing economic pressures, with low returns and falling government subsidy that may compromise animal welfare. Labour has been shown to be a key input factor for both productivity and welfare in extensive production systems. Despite this, little research has been done to try and optimise the labour input for productivity and welfare. This study is a first attempt to link labour input, productivity and welfare in extensive sheep systems through empirical observation and computer modelling. The fieldwork was undertaken from 2007 to 2009 on three research farms and three commercial farms. Labour use was analysed within a number of defined tasks. Linear programming (LP) modelling was then used to explore eight different scenarios with regard to sheep welfare, labour and productivity, and the potential impacts of specific management changes. Data analysis and model results showed hill sheep live to a high welfare standard according to the low incidence of welfare problems with low risks to productivity, confirming public expectations. Farmers, are however, aware their attention to an individual sheep’s welfare brings poor returns in terms of flock productivity. With this in mind, there is some scope for welfare-beneficial or –neutral reductions in labour, particularly if within-farm movement, e.g. between grazing areas, can be reduced. However, larger reductions of labour, even within legal guidelines, could seriously endanger the welfare of individual sheep, though without great risks to productivity at flock or farm level. Thus considerable savings in labour might, in some circumstances, reduce costs and hence improve profitability.
17
Zaragoza, Tony. "Apple capital growers, labor and technology in the origin and development of the Washington State apple industry, 1890-1930 /." Online access for everyone, 2007. http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Dissertations/Fall2007/T_Zaragoza_122907.pdf.
Full text
18
Luck, Kelly. "Contested rights : the impact of game farming on farm workers in the Bushmen's River area." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004144.
Full textAbstract:
This thesis is an investigation of the impact of commercial game farming on former farm workers in the Bushman's River area of the Eastern Cape. In its examination of the broader economic and political changes that have facilitated a move from agriculture to game farming, it analyses how these changes affect farm workers. The main concern of the thesis is the ways in which farm workers (at the local level) respond to changes at the national and global level (legal and political changes, the advent of tourism, and the injection of foreign capital and businessmen into the area). Lack of knowledge about their rights under the current political dispensation, as well as the perceived need for mediation between themselves and foreign landowners, points to a general sense of powerlessness. Feelings of alienation from local government structures aimed at fulfilling this function indicate a significant gap between the statute at the national level and the local reality. Local reality is informed by a strong conservatism which is generated by African Independent Church structures and local Xhosa perceptions of manhood and respectability. This conservative discourse leads to a frame of reference which is largely informed by pre-1994 interactions with farmers and government. This results in a situation in which farm workers, largely unaware of their rights in the new dispensation, operate as they did in the past; waiting for landowners to decide their fate for them. What ensues is a lack of meaningful interaction with government and landowners, perpetuating their subjugation and cynicism as to whether government structures are in fact working in their interests. The thesis comes to three main conclusions. The first is that game farming has been negatively received by farm workers due to the associated threats of unemployment and eviction. The second is that despite high levels of subjugation, even the very poor are agents to some degree. The creation of a masculine identity which is internally articulated, as opposed to outwardly expressed, and the grounding of reputation in the family suggest that farm workers have developed mechanisms to deal with their disempowered position. Lastly, farm workers are in possession of social capital which has made it possible for them to deal with their low status in the societal hierarchy. This includes the Church, family and fellow community members. These coping strategies have however proved a disadvantage in the current era because they prevent direct communication with landowners, government and NGOs.
19
Falletisch, Leila Ann. "Understanding the legacy of dependency and powerlessness by farm workers on wine farms in the Western Cape /." Thesis, Link to the online version, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10019/836.
Full text
20
Snyder, Karen. "Body wise : perceptions of health and safety risks for Latina apple warehouse workers in Washington State /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6515.
Full text
21
Daba, Genet. "Rural labour force in Ethiopia." Thesis, Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/123101.
Full textAbstract:
This study is based on males and females aged 10+ in the 1981/82
Rural Labour Force Survey. It analyzes the results of the usual and
current status approach which were used in the survey. The usual status
approach showed higher participation rates than the current status
approach for all age groups.
Unemployment and underemployment in rural Ethiopia are also
examined and it is found that underemployment as measured by hours
worked is more prominent than open unemployment. One reason for low
open unemployment is suspected to be the conventional definition of
unemployment which in most cases does not represent the rural situation
and secondly open unemployment appears to be truly rare in rural
Ethiopia.
The levels and patterns of male and female labour force
participation are discussed. Males at all ages have higher
participation rates than females. The gross years of active life of
males is high compared to that of females. Male participation is low in
the entry ages, rises to its maximum in the prime ages and again
decrease in the retirement ages. Female labour force participation
exhibits the central peak pattern.
The relationship between some demographic and social variables and
male and female participation are discussed. Marital status affects
male labour force participation, with married men having higher rates
while migration does not seem to affect male participation rates.
Demographic variables such as migration, marital status, and
relationship with head of household have significant effect on female
participation rates.
22
Kelsey, Beth M. "Culture care values, beliefs, and practices of Mexican American migrant farm workers related to health promoting behaviors." Virtual Press, 2005. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1312003.
Full textAbstract:
The purpose of this study was to describe, explicate, and systematically analyze the culture care values, beliefs, and practices of migrant farm workers related to health promoting behaviors in context of their temporary living accommodations and work setting in two small towns in east central Indiana. The goal of this study was to generate knowledge regarding culture care values, beliefs, and practices of migrant farm workers related to health promoting behaviors. Such knowledge can be used by nurses to provide culturally congruent care which can influence migrant farm workers' health and well-being.The theoretical framework for the study was Leininger's Theory of Culture Care Diversity and Universality. The qualitative ethnonursing research method was used. Semi-structured interviews were conducted using both an ethnonursing inquiry guide and an ethno-demographic information guide developed by the researcher.Sixteen key informants and three general informants participated in the study. Informants were purposefully selected for knowledge of migrant farm life and willingness to share this knowledge with the researcher. Key informants were Mexican American migrant farm workers in east central Indiana for farm and tomato factory work from July through October, 2004. General informants were health and social service workers who provided care for the migrant farm workers. Three key informants were interviewed twice each. All other informants were interviewed once. Interviews took place in the informants' homes and at a local food pantry. Interviews were audio taped and transcribed verbatim.Four major themes were synthesized from the research data: (a) health promoting behaviors are recognized and valued by migrant farm workers but are influenced by economic and political/legal factors in the social structure; (b) traditional gender roles of migrant farm worker men and women influence health promoting behaviors; (c) professional caring is viewed by migrant farm workers as respect through the use of the Spanish language and acceptance of culture care values, beliefs, and practices; and (d) health promoting behavior of migrant farm workers is influenced both by traditional culture care values and beliefs and by knowledge acquired through diverse formal and informal education. Findings were discussed in relation to Leininger's three modes of culture care action for nurses: culture care preservation/maintenance, accommodation/negotiation, and repatterning/restructuring.Department of Educational Studies
23
Maurer, Serena. "Feminist border praxis : exploring racialized citizenship, national belonging and gendered reproduction in the Yakima Valley /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6397.
Full text
24
Larkin, Sherrie N. "Workin' on the contract : St Lucian farmworkers in Ontario, a study of international labour migration /." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape10/PQDD_0003/NQ42747.pdf.
Full text
25
Silva, Cláudio Rodrigues da. "Educação e trabalho em movimentos sociais : princípios educativos transcendentes e comuns ao Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST), aos socialistas utópicos owenistas e aos cartistas britânicos /." Marília, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/110481.
Full textAbstract:
Orientador: Neusa Maria Dal RiBanca: Henrique Tahan Novaes
Banca: Érika Porceli Alaniz
Resumo: A pesquisa, documental e bibliográfica, apresenta os principais princípios teórico-práticos educacionais do Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST), dos socialistas utópicos owenistas e dos cartistas britânicos, verificando a forma de operacionalização e realizando um cotejamento desses princípios educativos nas experiências educacionais levadas a cabo por esses Movimentos. Os princípios são: a) elaboração e implementação de um projeto próprio de educação conforme as necessidades e ideologias dos respectivos Movimentos; b) a negação dialética do ensino oficial; c) implementação da gestão democrática nas associações e escolas dos Movimentos; d) ações visando formar os próprios educadores em consonância com a concepção de mundo e de educação dos respectivos Movimentos; e) articulação entre ensino e trabalho produtivo; f) constituição e veiculação de uma concepção de mundo concernente a cada Movimento e à classe trabalhadora. Os resultados apontam que, com as devidas ressalvas e especificidades decorrentes das diferenças entre as ideologias, as visões de mundo, bem como entre os momentos históricos de atuação de cada Movimento, esses princípios são transcendentes e comuns aos Movimentos mencionados.
Abstract: The documentary and bibliographical research, presents the main theoretical and practical educational principles of the Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST), Utopian Socialist Owenists and the British Chartists, checking the form of operation and conducting to a confrontation of these educational principles in educational experiments carried out by these Movements. The principles are: a) design and implementation of a project of education according to the needs and ideologies of their Movements; b) the dialectical negation of the official education; c) implementation of democratic management in associations and schools of the Movements; d) actions aiming to the educators themselves in line with the conception of world education of their own Movements ; e) articulation between education and productive work; f) constitution and spread of a conception of the world regarding each Movement and the working class. The results show that, with appropriate caveats and specificities arising from differences between the ideologies, the worldviews, and between the historic moments of actuation of each Movement, these principles are common and transcendent to the Movements mentioned.
Mestre
26
Kheswa, Nomzamo Sybil. "Changes and continuities in the labour process on commercial farms in post-Apartheid South Africa : studies from Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal Provinces." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1011978.
Full textAbstract:
This thesis examines the agricultural labour process on commercial farms in post-apartheid South Africa with a particular focus on systems of labour control on these farms. Considerable literature exists about the labour process in capitalist society but the capitalist labour process does not exist in any pure form. Rather, different labour processes exist and the specific form they take depends on spatial and temporal conditions. Additionally, labour processes are often economic sector-specific. Because of variation in capitalist labour processes, differences in systems of labour control (or labour control regimes) also arise. Historically, up until the end of apartheid in 1994, the labour control regime on commercial farms in South Africa was marked by a paternalistic despotism of a racialised kind. This in part reflected the fact that commercial farms were simultaneously sites of both economic production and social reproduction and, further, they were very privatised agrarian spaces largely unregulated (specifically with regard to labour) by the state. Since the end of apartheid, commercial farms have been subjected to multiple pressures. Notably, the South African state has strongly intervened in labour relations on commercial farms, and commercial farms have been subjected to ongoing neo-liberal restructuring. This has led to the prospects of changes in the prevailing labour control system on commercial farms. In this context, the thesis pursues the following key objective: to understand changes and continuities in the labour process on commercial farms – and particularly labour control systems – subsequent to the end of apartheid in South Africa. It does so with reference to four farms in Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal Provinces.
27
Coin, Francesca. "Pickles and Pickets after NAFTA: Globalization, Agribusiness, the US-Mexico Food-Chain, and Farm-Worker Struggles in North Carolina." restricted, 2007. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-06052007-232906/.
Full textAbstract:
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Georgia State University, 2007.Title from file title page. Charles Gallagher, committee chair; Lesley Reid, Ian C. Fletcher, Robert Adelman, committee members. Electronic text (245 p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed June 6, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 220-245).
28
McLochlin, Dustin. "American Catholicism and farm labor activism the Farm Labor Aid Committee of Indiana as a case study /." Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1219166598.
Full text
29
Horsburgh, Simon, and n/a. "A feasibility study of occupational exposure and acute injury outcome information collection methods for New Zealand agricultural workers." University of Otago. Dunedin School of Medicine, 2006. http://adt.otago.ac.nz./public/adt-NZDU20060831.110516.
Full textAbstract:
Background: Agricultural workers in New Zealand have high rates of occupational injury compared to most other occupational groups. They are also over-represented in work-related fatal injury statistics. While it is recognised that the personal and social costs of occupational injuries to agricultural workers are considerable, the ability to develop and evaluate evidence-based injury control strategies for this group has been limited by the lack of quality information on occupational exposures and injury events.
Aim: The aim of this thesis was to develop and pilot a comprehensive occupational exposure and acute injury outcome data collection system for agricultural workers which will provide an evidence base for a public health approach to acute occupational injury control within the agricultural sector of New Zealand. The thesis objectives were therefore to:
* Develop study methods to collect occupational exposure and injury outcome information.
* Assess the likely validity of these study methods.
* Determine the feasibility of implementing the study methods.
* Suggest modifications to the study methods to enhance their validity and feasibility.
Methods: Pastoral farms in the Waitaki region of New Zealand were identified using a database of New Zealand farm owners. The owners and workers on these farms were contacted and asked to participate. Participants were required to complete an Initial Questionnaire which included items on farm and personal characteristics, the farm environment, training, safety perceptions and attitudes and safety behaviour. Participants were then monitored for six months. During the monitoring period each participant completed a monthly log of their work activities during the preceding week. Any work-related injuries to workers on participating farms were also recorded and reported monthly. Participants who were injured were followed up for an interview to obtain detailed injury event information. At the end of the monitoring period a second Questionnaire was administered to assess change during the study. Participants were asked about any occupational injury events during the study as part of one of the monthly logs and the second Questionnaire to provide a comparison measure to the monthly reports. A random third of participating farms were visited at the end of the study to assess the validity of participants� reports on the farm environment.
Results: Sixty-two farms were recruited into the study, a recruitment rate of 24%. This resulted in 82 study participants. Fifty-seven farms and 72 participants completed the study, resulting in retention rates of 92% and 88% respectively. Return of study items was high, with the lowest observed level of return being 92%. Levels of response error were low in most of the study items, with exceptions being the recording of the hours spent handling animals (37%) and total hours worked (22%). Most postal items (over 68%) were returned before a reminder call was made.
Participants� reports about the farm environment closely matched the observations made during the visits, with little evidence of significant misreporting. The validity of reported injury events during the study could not be determined, as the two methods of capturing injury events identified different events.
Conclusions: Within the limitations of the study, most of the study methods appeared to be feasible and have acceptable validity. The low recruitment rate and issues with validating the capture of injury events indicated that modifications to the study design were necessary to achieve acceptable validity and feasibility, however. Recommendations were made on how feasibility and validity might be improved.
30
Roberts, Tamaryn Jean. "Farm wages and working conditions in the Albany District, 1957-2008." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002712.
Full textAbstract:
Agriculture is a major employer of labour in South Africa with about 8.8% of the total labour force directly involved in agricultural production (StatsSA, 2007a). Farm wages and working conditions in the Albany district were researched in 1957 by Roberts (1958) and 1977 by Antrobus (1984). Research in 2008, involving face-to-face interviews of a sample survey of 40 Albany farmers, was undertaken to update the situation facing farm labourers and allowed for comparisons with the work previously done. Farm workers were governed by common law until 1994 when the government intervened with legislation. The introduction of the Basic Conditions of Employment Act (1997) for farm workers, amended in 2002 to include minimum wage legislation, and the Extension of Security of Tenure Act (ESTA) of 1997 impacted the supply and demand of farm workers. Other impacts have been due to the Albany district experiencing an increase in the establishment of Private Game Reserves and game-tourism with a simultaneous decline in conventional farming. It was concluded from the survey conducted that minimum wage legislation decreased the demand for regular and increased the demand for casual labour, which incur lower costs including transaction costs, than their regular counterparts. The ESTA of 1997 contributed to a decreased number of farm residents, which had spin-off affects on the supply of labour. Farmers experienced a simultaneous price-cost squeeze, which furthermore decreased the demand for labour. Studying the working and living conditions showed that farm workers had limited access to educational and recreational facilities which negatively impacted the supply of labour.
31
Gonzalez, Alberto. "The rhetoric of apocalypse : an inquiry into the ascriptive values in Chicano self-presentation /." The Ohio State University, 1986. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu148732298431389.
Full text
32
Coello, Arguello Agusta Filomena. "Role of farming women in the communities of Puculpala, Llulluchi, and Guzo, Quimiag, Chimborazo." BYU ScholarsArchive, 1999. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/5351.
Full textAbstract:
In the Ecuadorian society there is a pronounced difference in the distribution of work between men and women. In the Ecuadorian society the man is dominant and the woman is seen as a free form of strenuous and excessive labor, who often goes without pay. The woman herself minimizes her own contribution in the production process, thereby magnifying this culture distinction. The division of work related responsibilities, through gender distinctions, has given women more tasks to complete, in addition to those generally reserved for females (taking care of the children, the animals and various household chores). Women also tend to aide in agricultural production, which often generates an important household income. This additional income, through agricultural means, continues to go unnoticed, thereby ignoring the true economic participation of women in rural areas. Planned Objectives were: Determine the production activities that the rural women fulfill in the communities of Puculpala, Llulluchi and Guzo in the Chimborazo province and Determine if the women in rural areas from the before said communities, benefit from their agricultural production. The diagnosis was completed through, studies, observations, personal interviews, text investigation and data analysis. A preliminary visit was made, in order to conduct observations, in the three above noted communities. After establishing a workable relationship with the people, interviews and surveys were conducted according to the annexes one through thirteen. The major production activities of the women in the studied communities are agriculture related. The percentage of women who work in agriculture are 66.67% in Puculpalpa, 60% in Guzo and 66.67% in Llulluchi. In Puculpalpa the women perform handcrafts as well. The women cultivate potatoes and corn in all three areas. They perform minor work with livestock, such as the breeding and rearing of the dairy cow and marketing of its milk. The most widely performed agricultural practice among the women is the cultivation of the potato. They spend an average time of 30% in sowing preparation, 32.22% in soil preparation, 11.67% in seed preparation, 23.33% sowing and fertilizing, 36.67% cultivating, 25.56% insect and disease control, 24.45% weeding, 35.56% harvesting, and 15.55% in the transportation and the marketing of products. Due to the fact that most of the agricultural work is for personal consumption, women are rarely paid for activities they perform. The countrywomen play a fundamental role in the production process, by supplying the food for their household. Despite this, in most circumstances their products have a lower market value then that of their male counterparts. The countrywomen greatly contribute to the income of the family through participation in the raising of cattle. Their role in this process brings an occasional income of 25.26% in Puculpala, 33.33% in Guzo and 30% in Llulluchi. Occasionally they contribute a daily income of S/. 8,000-9,000. In all three communities temporary migration of the women to larger cities, such as Quito, Riobamba and Guayaquil, are prevalent. Women perform house chores for other families in these cities. They prepare the food, take care of the children, collect firewood, clean, sew and shop. Illiteracy is high in all three communities, reaching 40% in Pucupalpa, 13.33%, in Guzo and 6.67% in Llulluchi. They are unable to perform basic solicitations and credit transactions. This lack of knowledge renders the women, unable to properly administrate their finances. This often results in lower paying jobs when they migrate. In all three communities there exists a religious faith in which the women seek divine assistance in their work. In Puculpala 53.33%, Guzo 6.67% and Llulluchi 33.33% of the women pray for a successful harvest. This practice is also true of males.
33
Saitua, Idarraga Iker. "Sagebrush Laborers| Basque Immigrants in Nevada's Sheep Industry, International Dimensions, and the Making of an Agricultural Workforce, 1880-1954." Thesis, University of Nevada, Reno, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10126026.
Full textAbstract:
This study explores the history of Basque immigration to the rangelands of Nevada. It views the Basque immigrant sheepherder labor within the social, economic, political, and cultural context of Nevada. Tensions and conflicts occurred as immigrant workers confronted new environments, new labor conditions, and new social adjustments in the context of their new immigrant status. As such, issues developed with other ethnic workforces and over land and water use, particularly upon the advent of the Progressive Conservation Movement in the Far West.
In the late nineteenth century, as sheep and cattle grazing expanded into Nevada (especially from California and Texas), Basque immigrant labor became increasingly visible and encountered discrimination in the use of public ranges. Yet, as the twentieth century progressed stock operators (Basque and Anglo alike) in the sheep industry began to prize Basque labor in the grazing of sheep to the point where that labor became privileged above all others. A stereotype developed of Basque sheepherders that reaffirmed an image of their natural expertise for the tending of sheep that could not be duplicated by any other racial or ethnic group. This study attempts to deconstruct the essentialism surrounding the making of these views that not only attribute to Basques special sheepherding skills, but also confer upon them a degree of racial whiteness and values that entitled them to a privileged labor category.
The 1924 restrictive Immigration Act resulted in a truncated labor supply from the Basque Country. During the Great Depression and especially in WWII the labor shortage became acute. In response Senator Patrick McCarran from Nevada lobbied on behalf of his woolgrowing constituency to open the immigration doors for Basques. Subsequently Cold War international tensions offered opportunities for a rapprochement between the United States and Francisco Franco despite Spain’s previous sympathy with the Axis powers. McCarran took it upon himself to become an informal intermediary with the Spanish dictator to seek more flexible policies on immigration to permit Basques to enter the United States. Ultimately this study explores the role of Basque agricultural labor and McCarran’s ad-hoc diplomacy as catalysts that eventually helped bring Spain into the orbit of western democracies.
34
Jansen, van Rensburg Jandre. "Skills development in the agricultural sector : a multiple case study approach." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/86157.
Full textAbstract:
Thesis (MComm (Psych))--Stellenbosch University, 2014.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Skills development is a crucial element in improving the effectiveness with which organisations operate in the current global arena. The level of skills of employees in any organisation should be of significant managerial concern. The principal aims of this study is firstly to investigate the success achieved in skills development initiatives in the agricultural sector in South Africa and secondly to develop a theoretical framework of important individual and organisational variables for skills development in agriculture. Management on farms need to develop the skills of their employees in order to ensure effective adaptation to changes in the sector. A strong need for development also exists among South Africans working in the agricultural environment, as the sector is rapidly modernising and the people employed in this sector often possess low skill and literacy levels. The key question is whether the skills development strategies and initiatives of farms are conducive to successful human resource development, in light of the specific individual and organisational context. A multiple case study research design was used, exploring the various ways in which six different farms approach skills development and the variables which impacted on the success thereof. These approaches and effects are compared to the literature and across cases to move towards the development of a skills development framework applicable to the unique agricultural context in South Africa. Data collection included primary (semi-structured interviews with employees and management) and secondary (background and administrative) information to comprehensively describe each case. Pattern matching was used to determine common trends between the cases and illustrate them in terms of a conceptual framework. General support was found across the six cases for the complex and extensive framework of variables. The following individual variables were found to have an impact on the effectiveness of skills development: ability to learn, motivation to engage in and transfer training, attitude to skills development, locus of control, and perceived ability to learn. Organisational variables which affected the effectiveness of skills development included the following: labour relations, organisational strategy, culture, climate, and systems. Many of these variables comprised a number of sub-variables, which were also shown to be relevant in the framework. Variables in the individual and organisational frameworks were also found to demonstrate interactive effects within and across framework boundaries. The results of the study serve as thought provoking reading for managers, which could stimulate critical thought and an inquisitive attitude to skills development on their farms. In general, training and development was approached in a very informal manner in terms of strategy, goals, and practice. Managers can surely benefit from adopting greater formalisation in these aspects as it would ease the process of planning, implementing, and evaluating training. In certain instances additional variables or interrelationships were identified for future study. The establishment of the framework of variables serves to inform future research: it represents a point of departure for research in a critical field where little recent research has been published.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die ontwikkeling van vaardighede is 'n kernbelangrike aspek om die doeltreffendheid waarmee organisasies in die huidige internasionale speelveld optree te verbeter. Die vaardigheidsvlakke van werknemers in enige organisasie behoort van kernbelang te wees vir bestuurders van sulke organisasies. Die hoofdoel van hierdie studie is dus eerstens om die mate van sukses met vaardigheidsontwikkelingsinisiatiewe in die landbousektor te ondersoek en tweedens om 'n teoretiese raamwerk van die belangrikste individuele en organisatoriese veranderlikes vir vaardigheidsontwikkeling in landbou te ontwikkel. Die vaardigheidsvlakke van werknemers in die landbousektor moet deur die werkgewer ontwikkel word om te verseker dat effektiewe veranderinge in hierdie sektor plaasvind. Daar is 'n besonder sterk behoefte aan vaardigheidsontwikkeling onder werknemers in die landbousektor van Suid-Afrika , aangesien die sektor 'n snelle moderniseringsproses ondergaan, maar die werknemers in baie gevalle oor besonder lae vaardigheids- en ontwikkelingsvlakke beskik. Die vraag bestaan of die strategieë en inisiatiewe wat deur die werkgewer geïmplementeer word wel aanleiding gee tot suksesvolle menslike hulpbronontwikkeling, gegewe die spesifieke individuele en organisatoriese konteks. Deur gebruik te maak van veelvoudige gevallestudies as navorsingsmetode, is daar gekyk na ses verskillende plase se benadering tot opleiding, asook die impak en sukses van hierdie opleiding. Hierdie benaderings en invloede word vergelyk met die literatuur en tussen gevallestudies met die oog op die ontwikkeling van 'n vaardigheidsontwikkelingsraamwerk spesifiek binne die unieke konteks van die Suid-Afrikaanse landbousektor. Data-insameling behels primêre inligting (semi-gestruktureerde onderhoude met werknemers en bestuur), en sekondêre inligting (agtergrond- en administratiewe) om elke geval omvattend te beskryf. Patroonpassing is gebruik om algemene tendense tussen die gevallestudies te identifiseer en vervolgens die gevallestudies met die konseptuele raamwerk te vergelyk. Die ses gevallestudies het die komplekse en omvattende raamwerk van veranderlikes in die geheel ondersteun. Resultate toon aan dat die volgende individuele veranderlikes 'n klaarblyklike impak gehad het op die doeltreffendheid van opleiding en ontwikkeling: die vermoë en motivering om te leer en vaardighede oor te dra; die houding teenoor opleiding ontwikkeling; die lokus van beheer; en die waargenome vermoë om te leer. Die doeltreffendheid van opleiding en ontwikkeling is ook deur die volgende organisatoriese veranderlikes beïnvloed: arbeidsverhoudinge, organisatoriese strategie, kultuur, omgewing en stelsels. Die sub-veranderlikes van die individuele en organisatoriese veranderlikes is ook as relevant binne die raamwerk aangedui. Verder is die voorgestelde verwantskappe tussen veranderlikes (binne sowel as oor die grense van die individuele en organisatoriese raamwerke) ook ondersteun. Die resultate van hierdie studie dien as insette vir bestuurders om kritiese denke en 'n ondersoekende ingesteldheid teenoor opleiding en ontwikkeling op hul plase te stimuleer. Opleiding en ontwikkeling is oor die algemeen op 'n baie informele wyse geïmplementeer ten opsigte van strategie, doelwitbepaling en uitvoering in die praktyk. Bestuurders kan baat vind by die formalisering van bestaande praktyke omdat dit die proses van beplanning, implementering en evaluering van opleiding en ontwikkeling kan vergemaklik. Addisionele veranderlikes en interverwantskappe is geïdentifiseer vir verdere navorsing. Die samestelling van die raamwerk van veranderlikes dien juis as uitgangspunt vir toekomstige navorsing in 'n kerngebied wat min aandag in navorsing geniet.
35
Vozzo, Rosa Elena. "Intercultural communication needs of Mississippi agricultural students, employers, and Hispanic workers." Diss., Mississippi State : Mississippi State University, 2006. http://library.msstate.edu/etd/show.asp?etd=etd-06162006-132840.
Full text
36
Bello, Barros Rosario. "Labor processes within a commodity system : a comparative study of workers in apple packing houses /." Diss., This resource online, 1993. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-06062008-165840/.
Full text
37
ANDREWS, ABBY S. "Persistent Variation: An Architectural Response to the Human Experience." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1212077858.
Full text
38
Jansen, Lloyd A. "Explaining rural calm and rural unrest in Costa Rica : the coffee and banana export sectors /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/10702.
Full text
39
Cardoso, Terezinha de Fátima 1969. "Cenarios tecnologicos e demanda da capacitação da mão-de-obra do setor agricola sucroalcooleiro paulista." [s.n.], 2010. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/256925.
Full textAbstract:
Orientadores: Oscar Antonio Braunbeck, Julieta Teresa Aier de OliveiraDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Agrícola
Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-15T19:39:14Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Cardoso_TerezinhadeFatima_M.pdf: 2585445 bytes, checksum: 0025f2559d952a41ba95e3aeaca32ca5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010
Resumo: No Brasil, o setor sucroalcooleiro viveu um momento de grandes investimentos, impulsionado principalmente pelo aumento da frota de automóveis do tipo "flex fuel", e pela expectativa de aumento das exportações, considerando a meta de adição de etanol à gasolina no mundo todo. Governo e organizações privadas estão se conscientizando da necessidade de ações para aumentar a produção e a produtividade. Dentre tais medidas, estão a ampliação das áreas de plantio, a otimização do processo de plantio e colheita da cana-de-açúcar, bem como a otimização da produção de etanol. No entanto, as referidas medidas para elevar a produtividade implicam questões ambientais, econômicas, sociais e tecnológicas, ganhando expressão com o processo de mecanização. Este trabalho tem por objetivo analisar a qualificação de mão-de-obra no processo de implantação da mecanização do setor agrícola sucroalcooleiro. Para tanto, foram considerados quatro cenários de mecanização: Cenário I - Tradicional, Cenário II - Mecanizado, Cenário III - Informatizado e Cenário IV - Auxílio Mecânico, e o grau de qualificação da mão-de-obra requerida em cada um deles. Foram visitadas três usinas sucroalcooleiras, duas que representam o cenário I e uma unidade que representa o cenário II, de acordo com o índice de mecanização empregado, e realizada uma projeção para os cenários III e IV, visando identificar as carências de qualificação da mão-de-obra no setor. Verificou-se que a mecanização assim como as tecnologias associadas, como a agricultura de precisão, exige funcionários com escolaridade e capacitação acima da encontrada no quadro de funcionários das usinas pesquisadas, principalmente no que se refere ao plantio e corte manual, situação que aponta para a necessidade de um programa mais abrangente de qualificação e treinamento para o setor
Abstract: The Brazilian sugar and alcohol sector is going through a process of large investments driven mostly by the growing fleet of flex fuel automobiles, and also by expectations about increasing exports of ethanol for worldwide blending with gasoline. Government and private organizations are becoming aware of the need for actions required to increase production and productivity. Among these actions are the increase of farming areas, optimization of the planting and harvesting processes as well as the ethanol production process. Along with those changes several questions arise related to environmental, economical, social and technological matters, in which agricultural mechanization is included. The objective of this work is to analyze the need for labor qualification in the processes of rapid mechanization that is taking place. For the study three mechanization sceneries were considered: scenery I- Traditional, scenery II- mechanized, scenery III- computerized and scenery IV- mechanically aided. Labor qualification required was analyzed in all three cases. Three sugar mills were visited, two of them can be included in scenery I and the third one in scenery II; scenery III and scenery IV are just a future view according to the present trends. In all cases labor qualification shortages were identified. It was found that increasing mechanization labels are associated with higher level of labor qualification at the mills. Mechanizations of the planting and harvesting operations together with the still incipient applications of precision farming require higher qualified labor than manual planting and harvesting operations
Mestrado
Maquinas Agricolas
Mestre em Engenharia Agrícola
40
Sampaio, Vilomar Sandes. "Trabalho familiar e fruticultura no perímetro irrigado de Livramento do Brumado-BA." Pós-Graduação em Geografia, 2013. https://ri.ufs.br/handle/riufs/5564.
Full textAbstract:
The modernization of brazilian agriculture has brought different socioeconomic and environmental impacts. New forms of production were incorporated into this territory by deploying modern agriculture, particularly from the 1970s, a period in which capital entered the field more intensively. In this changing landscape techniques and scientific achievements that presents the general objective of this study that is to analyze the social-spatial transformation of the peasant in the microregion of Livramento do Brumado in South Central Bahia, with the deployment of modernized agriculture and polo fruitful. The economic base of these municipalities is based on agriculture. The economic base of these cities is based on agriculture. With the implementation of the irrigation district in 1986, was the creation and diffusion of small farms. From that period the productive structure sat in the small property, work and family in the cultivation of mango fruit with dominance. The modernization of agriculture is not only the change in the technical basis of production - its consequences are economic and social. The methodology adopted was as follows: literature review, data collection agencies such as Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), the National Institute of Colonization and Agrarian Reform (INCRA) and the Superintendency of Economic and Social Studies of Bahia (SEI). Information on the regional agriculture were obtained in sectors such as the Departments of Agriculture this micro municipalities, associations of rural workers, cooperatives and unions, producers and workers in horticulture. Empirical research was developed from the research papers on the history and occupation of the interior of Bahia and questionnaires and structured interviews with social workers: workers, farmers, businessmen, President of associations and local leaders. With the implementation of this perimeter were significant changes in land use that space, production techniques and labor relations. The modernization resized the agrarian space that micro and social reproduction allowed the small farmer. Currently, this stands as strong micro producer of fruits especially mangoes production. The production and marketing of these fruits has specialized over the years due to the collective organization of producers and the private sector. The fruit production in this micro-region is a potential market while agricultural product. The small farmers have their production units controlled mainly by family labor and supported by collective organizations that favor their reproduction strategies. This activity presents factors favorable to the continuation of the project with the same fruit presented adverse factors.A modernização da agricultura brasileira trouxe diferentes impactos socioeconômicos e ambientais. Novas formas de produção foram incorporadas ao território com a implantação dessa agricultura moderna, particularmente a partir da década de 1970, período no qual o capital penetrou no campo de forma mais intensa. Nesse cenário de mudanças técnicas e conquistas científicas que se apresenta o objetivo geral desse estudo que é analisar as transformações socioespaciais ocorridas na microrregião de Livramento do Brumado, no Centro Sul Baiano, com a implantação da agricultura modernizada e, do polo frutífero. A base econômica desses municípios está fundamentada na agricultura. Com a implantação do perímetro irrigado em 1986, houve a constituição e difusão da pequena propriedade rural. A partir desse período a estrutura produtiva se assentou na pequena propriedade, no trabalho familiar e no cultivo da fruta com predominância da manga. A modernização da agricultura não representa apenas a mudança na base técnica da produção - suas consequências são econômicas e sociais. A metodologia adotada foi a seguinte: revisão bibliográfica, coleta de dados em órgãos como: Ministério da Agricultura; Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE); Instituto Nacional de Colonização e Reforma Agrária (INCRA) e Superintendência de Estudos Econômicos e Sociais da Bahia (SEI). As informações sobre a agricultura regional foram obtidas em setores como as Secretarias de Agricultura dos municípios dessa microrregião; associações de trabalhadores rurais, cooperativas e sindicatos; produtores e trabalhadores da fruticultura. A pesquisa empírica foi desenvolvida a partir da investigação em documentos sobre a história e ocupação do interior da Bahia e aplicação de questionários e entrevistas semiestruturadas aos agentes sociais: trabalhadores, produtores, empresários, presidente de associações e lideranças locais. Com a implantação desse perímetro ocorreram significativas transformações no uso da terra nesse espaço, nas técnicas de produção e nas relações de trabalho. A modernização redimensionou o espaço agrário dessa microrregião e permitiu a reprodução social do pequeno agricultor. Atualmente, essa microrregião se destaca como forte produtora de frutas com destaque para produção de mangas. A produção e comercialização dessas frutas tem se especializado ao longo dos anos em função da organização coletiva dos produtores e da iniciativa privada. A produção frutícola nessa microrregião constitui um mercado em potencial enquanto produto agrícola. Os pequenos produtores rurais têm suas unidades de produção comandadas essencialmente pelo trabalho familiar e apoiadas por organizações coletivas que favorecem suas estratégias de reprodução. Essa atividade apresenta fatores favoráveis à continuação do empreendimento com a fruta mesmo apresentado fatores adversos.
41
Myers, Kendall Page. "Zoonotic influenza and occupational risk factors in agricultural workers." Diss., University of Iowa, 2007. http://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/221.
Full text
42
Johnson, Andrea Shan. "Mixed up in the making Martin Luther King Jr., Cesar Chavez, and the images of their movements /." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/4486.
Full textAbstract:
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2006.The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file viewed on (Feb. 27, 2007). Vita. Includes bibliographical references.
43
Wang, Xiaobing. "Labor market behavior of Chinese rural households during transition /." Halle (Saale) : IAMO, 2007. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0803/2008400549.html.
Full text
44
Wearaduwa, Vidana Kankanamge Thilani Kaushalya. "Economic Efficiency of Occupational Health and Safety Investments at Agricultural Cooperatives." Thesis, North Dakota State University, 2018. https://hdl.handle.net/10365/28861.
Full textAbstract:
Industries related to agricultural cooperatives record some of the highest injury rates in the U.S. Therefore, agricultural cooperatives are highly motivated to invest in occupational health and safety (OHS). This thesis examines the economic efficiency of OHS investments at agricultural cooperatives and identifies cooperative characteristics leading to greater economic efficiency of OHS investments. A multiple input-output data envelopment analysis (DEA) is used to estimate technical efficiency. The effects of cooperative characteristics on the efficiency of OHS investments are estimated using ordinary least squares, censored regression, truncated regression, and the Simar and Wilson (2007) bootstrap procedure. Results show that the mean technical efficiency score was 0.833. Furthermore, a cooperative?s annual insurance premia has a significant, negative relationship with technical efficiency. In contrast, the experience levels of a cooperative?s top safety person and top managerial person and a location?s total workers employed have significant, positive relationships with efficiency in all estimated models.North Dakota State University. Department of College of Agriculture, Food Systems and Natural Resources
45
Nelson, James H. "Labor allocation decisions of Virginia's farm families." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/42951.
Full textAbstract:
Using data collected by the Virginia Agricultural Statistical Service in 1989, off-farm labor participation models were developed to identify factors that influence the probability that a farm operator or spouse in Virginia would choose to work off the farm. The sample indicated that a substantial proportion of Virginia farms had at least one member working off the farm. Higher total incomes were also earned by fanlilies with an operator and/or spouse working off the farm. In addition, the proportion of total income originating from off-farm sources was large regardless of whether the operator or spouse worked off the farm or not. As a result of this survey, the picture developed of farm operators and spouses in Virginia is different than a traditional view of farming would support.
Because of the dichotomous dependent variable and the different responses expected from the operator and spouse, probit analysis was selected to estimate separate participation models for the farm operator and spouse. The empirical results reveal that human capital, labor supply and labor demand characteristics influence the off-farm employment decisions of both the operator and spouse, though not in a uniform manner. Additionally, variables found to be important to off-farm labor force participation were primarily not farm specific. Changes in the non-farm economy are expected to affect the majority of Virginia farms more than changes in the farm economy. It is also clear that the majority of farm families in Virginia have a vested interest in efforts made to develop and strengthen the local economy.Master of Science
46
Bana, Luzia [UNESP]. "Vilas rurais no processo de transformação do espaço rural no município de Paranavaí." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/89834.
Full textAbstract:
Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:24:12Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0
Previous issue date: 2001Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T18:06:41Z : No. of bitstreams: 1
bana_l_me_prud.pdf: 1686772 bytes, checksum: e6d636eec62f70cfb1261196256db4a0 (MD5)O programa Vilas Rurais destinado ao assentamento de trabalhadores rurais volantes chamados bóias-frias, e que são “trabalhadores não regularmente empregados”. É um projeto do Governo do Estado do Paraná, em parceria com as Prefeituras Municipais, que busca criar mecanismos para manter o homem no campo e oferecer alternativas para que o seu trabalho e o seu sustento venham da própria terra. Este programa propõe amenizar as desigualdades sociais provocadas pela migração campo-cidade, intermediando as desigualdades socioeconômicas e a realocação de mão-de-obra, num movimento inverso, da cidade para o campo. As Vilas Rurais são implantadas, preferencialmente, em regiões de grande concentração de mão-de-obra temporária, mas especialmente em região campestre produtoras de algodão, mandioca, laranja e pecuária. São centros de trabalho, com infra-estrutura de habitação, energia elétrica, água e são sempre localizados próximos aos centros urbanos, de forma a assegurar o acesso ao mercado de trabalho agrícola e não agrícola aos trabalhadores rurais volantes.Os investimentos nesse projeto destinam-se a criar para os trabalhadores rurais volantes e suas famílias, um sentido da vida com maior qualidade, dignidade e cidadania.
The Vilas Rurais Programme was apllied to the settlement of footmen landless and agricultural laborers — called “country workers that are not regularly employed”. It’s a Government programme in the State of Paraná, in a partnership with the Cities Hall in this State, and it is an attempting to create devices to maintain the men in the country and also to offer them some alternatives in order to their work and their sustenance do come from the country. This Programme intends itself to soften the social dissimilarities promoted by the migration “country-city”; intermediate the social and economic differences, and also to reallocate the labor — in an inverse movement — from cities to country. The Vilas Rurais Programme in established — preferentially — in regions where there is a great concentration of temporary labor but, principally, in some country-sides that produce “cotton, orange, manioc, and cattle raising”. These villas are work-centers with complete infrastructure like: habitatios, electrical energy, water and they are always located next to urban centers in order to guarantee the admittance to the agricultural and no agricultural labour market for the landless and agricultural footmen laborers. The investments in the programme are addressed to create a sense of living with better quality, dignity and citizenship in this kind of laborers and their families.
47
Chilka, Rashmi Bali. "The politics of location : bonded labor in Jaunsar Bawar, North India /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/10501.
Full text
48
Baatjies, Roslynn. "Occupational allergy and asthma among table grape farm workers in the Hex-river Valley, Western Cape." Thesis, Peninsula Technikon, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11838/791.
Full textAbstract:
Thesis (MTech (Environmental Health))--Peninsula Technikon, Cape Town, 2003Recent studies have reported an increased prevalence (19%) of respiratory symptoms among furm workers exposed to pesticides. International studies suggest excessive pesticide use and biological factors such as outdoor mites as important factors responsible for asthma symptoms. Studies in Korea suggest that spider mites may be responsible for allergic asthma symptoms among workers on fruit (citrus, apple, and . pear) furms. The fuming of wine and table grapes in South Africa involves about 3000 farms employing over 50,000 workers. Workers on table grape farms, in contrast to other fruit farms have not been previously investigated for occupational respiratory allergy to spider mites. Objectives • To determine the spectrum and prevalence of work-related allergy and asthma among table grape farm workers • To determine the environmental and host factors associated with work-related symptoms and allergic outcomes. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted on 207 workers employed on nine table grape farms in the Hex River valley of South Africa. A modified European Community Respiratory Health Survey questionnaire was used to interview workers. Skin prick tests used 8 commercial extracts of common airborne allergens (ALK) and potential occupational allergens, which included grape mould (Botrytis cinerea) and an in-house extract of spider mite, Tetranychus urticae. Specific IgE to Tetranychus urticae was determined using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and to house dust mite (Dermatophagoides Pteronyssinus) and storage mite (Lepidoglyphus Destructor) using Pharrnacia CAPRAST. Results: The mean age of the workers was 36 years with a standard deviation of 11 years.
49
Mazower, Benjamin Louis. "Agriculture, farm labour and the state in the Natal Midlands, 1940-1960." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/14317.
Full textAbstract:
Bibliography: leaves 204-212.This thesis analyses agrarian development in the Natal Midlands during the 1940s and 1950s. Based predominantly on archival and primary sources, it seeks to provide some empirical evidence in an area where such information is sorely lacking. The first chapter briefly analyses the national agricultural economy in the 1940s before turning to the Natal Midlands. The importance of urban factors in fuelling the post-war boom is examined, as is the way in which different groups of farmers reacted to these developments. The second chapter discusses the position of farm workers. The system of labour tenancy is considered and stress is laid on the various tensions within the system which became prominent at this time. The use of the courts and the police in helping farmers control their workers, informal methods of control and labourers' resistance are also examined. The next chapter discusses the severe farm labour shortage and shows how it emerged from the tensions within labour tenancy and the increasing urban opportunities seized by farm workers. Attention is also paid to the farm labour policies of the pre-apartheid state and these are compared with the policies demanded by organised agriculture. The final chapter examines these processes during the 1950s. The effect of the slowdown in agricultural growth is discussed as is the limited success of the apartheid state's farm labour policies. It is suggested that the key to understanding the state's lack of success lies in differentiating between different categories of farmers. The agricultural crisis in the late 1950s and its effects are also analysed. Finally, it is suggested that the key determinants of agrarian development are accumulation and struggle rather than state policies.
50
Nyama, Cynthia. "Investigating aspects of corporate citizenship on private game farms : the case of Mtshelezi Game Reserve in Makana Municipality, Eastern Cape Province /." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2008. http://eprints.ru.ac.za/1288.
Full text