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Tucker, Lee – 2000
Agricultural work is the most hazardous and grueling area of employment open to U.S. children and is also the least protected. Adolescent farmworkers labor under more dangerous conditions than their peers working in nonagricultural settings and also face persistent wage exploitation and fraud. These adolescent workers are protected less under U.S.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Agricultural Laborers, Agriculture, Child Health