Random Facts and Terms Agricultural Organisations and Laws Terms and Titles Time Periods True or False
100
What is migrant farm work
This type of job has been identified as the worst single profession in the US (hint 2 words)
100
What is the New Deal
A series of domestic programs led by Roosevelt in the 1930s
100
What is a coyote
these people help people cross the border illegally, also the name of an animal
100
The New Deal Era
Important era of the 1930s for worker's rights
100
What is true
Farmworker supporters concentrate their efforts on living conditions
200
Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala
Most undocumented immigrants today are from this North American and these 2 central American countries
200
What is The Fair Labor Standards Acts
the centerpiece of the New deal that established minimum wages for workers
200
What is riteros
small unlicensed operators who transport workers to and from the fields in vans/cars they have bought themselves
200
What is the Progressive Era
This era's main achievement was workers' compensation
200
What is false
Federal laws protecting employees benefited most farmworkers
300
What is contractor system
many farms operate under this system as it aids bring migrant workers directly to the farms
300
Farm Labor Contractor Registration Act(FLCRA)
First federal law regulation working and living conditions of Farmworkers passed by Congress in 1963
300
What is compadres
Latino contractors are often asked to become ___, to baptize one of their worker's children and thereby establish a formal relationship of trust
300
What is the 1990s
Political participation by farmworkers became more difficult in these years
300
What is false
Farmworkers benefited greatly from the period of transformation in the industrial work place
400
What is the ritero system
system used to transport farmworkers used by many contractors and growers, technically not legal
400
What is the Federal Department of Labor
Government agency involved in issues of workplace safety under the Occupational Safety and Health Administration
400
what is crewleaders
these "managers" are generally armed and rely on groups of thugs to assault those workers who refuse to cooperate,
400
What is the New Deal
The majority of employment rights trace their origin to this time period
400
What is false
Farmworkers are well equipped to overcome political efforts of agri-buisness
500
what is debt peonage
a method of debt repayment in which an individual makes his payments to a creditor by physical labor, often associated with African American workers in America's history
500
What is the National Labor Relations Act
The passage of this Act granted industrial workers the right to collectively bargain, really giving unions a chance to prosper, also called the Wagner Act
500
What is agricultural exceptionalism
This term was introduced to describe how farm labor is not subject to the same regulations as the labor in other industries
500
What is the bracero program
Operating between 1942 and 1964 this program allowed the entry of million of Mexican guest workers
500
What is true
Over 40% of workers' wages goes to taxes, worker's compensation insurance and employment insurance






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