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From the Bookshelves: David Griffith, American guestworkers: Jamaicans and Mexicans in the U.S. labor market

By immigrationprof

Image003 The book has been out for a while but, because a possible guestworker program remains on the table, it remains relevant.  David Griffith, American guestworkers: Jamaicans and Mexicans in the U.S. labor market (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006) focuses on the H-2 program, the longest running labor-importation program in the country. Over the course of a quarter-century of research, the author studied rural labor processes and their national and international effects. In this book, he examines the socioeconomic effects of the H-2 program on both the areas where the laborers work and the areas they are from, and, taking a uniquely humanitarian stance, he considers the effects of the program on the laborers themselves.

KJ