Pick-your-own labor: Migrant workers and flexibility in Canadian agriculture

International Migration Review

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 404-441

  Preibisch, Kerry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; EMPLOYMENT; LABOR MIGRATION; MIGRANT WORKER; WORKPLACE;

CANADA;

EID: 77953202478     PISSN: 01979183     EISSN: 17477379     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-7379.2010.00811.x     Document Type: Article

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