The labor movement, founded on the principle of worker solidarity, is seriously divided over the "guest-worker" program proposed as part of immigration-reform legislation. Guest-worker programs let ...

The U.S. has an important choice to make regarding agriculture. It can import more people to pick crops and do other kinds of agricultural labor, it can raise wages enough to lure more U.S. citizens ...

MONTERREY, Mexico - The nine ranch hands grabbed their duffel bags and headed to the Rio Grande as night fell. But unlike millions of Mexicans who sneak across the border, these men didn't need the ...

A group of academics and agriculture professionals came together to talk about migrant labor and food production in a panel last week. The Latin American, Latino and Caribbean studies department and ...

ALBANY — An ally of Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman is circulating a video offering a more nuanced stance on immigration than some of Blakeman’s more recent public statements. Herberth Flores, ...

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PHOENIX — As a labor contractor in the nation's winter lettuce capital, Francisco Chavez struggles to hire enough workers to pick and package the produce. Last year, ripe romaine sometimes went bad in ...

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This article is republished from The Conversation, an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. Scott Morgenstern is a professor of Political Science at ...