Resources

Farmworkers today continue to fight for equal protection under employment and labor laws. This interactive map and database of state … Read more Interactive Maps

The U.S. Department of Labor’s National Agricultural Workers Survey (NAWS) is an employment-based, random-sample survey of U.S. crop workers that … Read more NAWS Visualizations

Factsheet on the “Fairness for Farm Workers Act”, which would end the discriminatory denial of overtime pay and most remaining … Read more The Fairness for Farm Workers Act: It’s Time to End Discrimination against Farmworkers

Book chapter written by Farmworker Justice President Bruce Goldstein, included in an International Labor Organization (ILO) publication entitled “Merchants of … Read more Merchants of Labour in Three Centuries: Lessons from History for Reforming 21st Century Exploitation of Migrant Labour

A report by the Commission for Labor Cooperation, an international organization created under the North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation … Read more Protection of Migrant Agricultural Workers in Canada, Mexico and the U.S.

This report offers a sampling of stories from both U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents on farms. Although a majority … Read more Who Works the Fields? The Stories of Americans Who Feed Us

Report by Farmworker Justice and the National Employment Law Project (NELP) on the use of labor subcontracting and abuses that … Read more From Orchards to the Internet: Confronting Contingent Work Abuses

1999 UCLA law review article on joint employer liability.  

In 1983, Congress passed the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act (AWPA). To mark the thirtieth anniversary of its … Read more Unfinished Harvest: The Agricultural Worker Protection Act at 30

This fact sheet explains the importance of the Fair Labor Standard Act’s (FLSA) protection against “hot goods,” which makes it … Read more Fact Sheet on FLSA’s “Hot Goods” Provision