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Social tragedy ripens in the fields: child labor practices collide with the law

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Vils, Ursula (creator)
Subject:
Emigration and immigration
Agricultural laborers
Strikes and lockouts
Teamsters
United Farm Workers
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2 p.

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A large percentage of agricultural labor is done illegally by the children of migrant farm workers. The families would not be able to survive without this added income, and the children are thus unable to attend school. The children do not have access to healthcare either. There are disputes as to whether the growers are aware of these illegal conditions.

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Vils, Ursula, "Social tragedy ripens in the fields: child labor practices collide with the law " Educating Change. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:105143/

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