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farmworkers & agribusiness
- Oxfam
report: "Like Machines in the Field" -
In the US nearly two million farmworkers earn sub-living wages and
work in dehumanizing conditions. The supply chain model
of global economics has tightened profit margins: value is passed
up the chain, while workers at the bottom pay the price.
- Recent
Structural Changes in the Agricultural Industry and their Effects -
A very useful fact sheet on the corporate consolidation of agriculture
and its effects on farmworkers compiled by the RFK Center
for Human Rights
- Modern-day
Slavery in U.S. Agriculture: Legal Failure
and Corporate Complicity - Another useful fact sheet
on modern-day slavery in the agricultural industry compiled by
National Economic and Social Rights Initiative
- National
Agricultural Workers Survey - The U.S.
Dept. of Labor survey of the demographic and employment characteristics
of farm labor.
- Agribusiness
Accountability Initiative - A growing international network
of academics, activists and food system experts who recognize that
corporate concentration and vertical integration among transnational
agri-food companies threaten the sustainability of the global food
system.
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