Caribbean Migration: Contract Labor in U.S. Agriculture

Recent events in Nicaragua threaten to bring an end to the infamous Somoza dynasty which has been in control for

"Most of our people are reluctant to take dirty, low-paying and dead-end jobs. To fill these jobs, we need less

Castle & Cooke is well-known in the U.S. for the Dole bananas and pineapples it markets. In Honduras, it is

Every year, thousands of West Indian contract workers fly on chartered jets from Kingston, Jamaica to mainland Florida. They travel

Growers who defend the importation of Jamaican apple pickers say the job requires special attributes--traits they would like to pass

On November 10, over 10,000 workers, representing 42 labor unions, paralyzed traffic for hours as they marched to the Capitol

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Recent headlines have been filled with news from the U.S.- Mexican border. President Carter's new immigration plan, campaigns against undocumented

Shortly after the Sept.-Oct. Report went to press, action in Congress invalidated part of the Update story on recent human

The Panama Canal Treaty has become one of the most important political issues this year. In the U.S. its bipartisan

The U.S. purchased the Danish West Indies in 1916, ostensibly as a war measure designed to keep the Germans out