Rising consumer demand for fresh fruits and vegetables has led to the employment of five million Mexican-born workers on North American farms during a typical year. The migration of Mexican workers within and from Mexico has implications for North American agriculture, labor, and economic development. For instance, the guest worker systems of Canada and the US allow Mexican workers to earn five times more in six months than they could earn in a year at home, fueling the construction of trophy homes in rural Mexico but not necessarily spurring economic development. The expansion of export agriculture encourages internal migration from south-to-north within Mexico, which moves migrants to areas that offer higher wages but may subject some migrants to exploitation. In Bracero 2.0, Philip Martin draws on decades of research and experience to explore the role of rural Mexicans in North American agriculture, as well as the implications for farm employers and farm workers, consumers, and the economies of North America. Martin assesses the historical and current demand for and supply of farm labor and the operation of farm labor markets in Canada, Mexico, and the US. He also uses statistical and survey data to provide the most reliable portrait of the five million people who work for wages on North American farms and explores alternatives to US farm workers in major fruits and vegetables, showing how changing consumer preferences can speed or slow mechanization. Bracero 2.0 concludes with options to improve protections for farm workers, highlighting the need for systems that ensure continuous labor law compliance--as with food safety--rather than compliance only for government or private audits.
Born in Liverpool 1938. Philip Martin trained at RADA as an actor and appeared in various leading roles on stage and TV. He has also pursued a career as a writer and has contributed scripts to many series including his own BBC1 'Play for Today' film and subsequent BBC1 2x6 part series. His other writing work includes plays for the National Theatre and the Royal Court. His contributions to Doctor Who are 'Vengeance on Varos', 'Mindwarp' and a novelisation of 'Mission to Magnus' for Target Books in the 'missing episodes' series.
In need of Zeiton-7 to repair the TARDIS, the Doctor and Peri travel to the planet Varos. A former prison for the criminally insane, Varos is now ruled by the descendents of the guards. The population is kept in check and entertained by broadcasts of torture and execution from the Punishment Dome – where the TARDIS lands. Soon the Doctor and Peri, together with rebel fugitives Jondar and Areta, find themselves trying to escape the Dome’s traps and challenges – all on live television. Can the Doctor and Peri escape the Punishment Dome, and help the Governor ensure the people of Varos get a fair deal for their Zeiton-7? This novel is based on a Doctor Who story which was originally broadcast from 19–26 January 1975. Featuring the Sixth Doctor as played by Colin Baker with his companion Peri
A collection of essays, some autobiographical and some less so, about the American experience. The essays are extremely varied, touching on subjects such as politics, ethics, music, race, culture, and history. Topics include the KKK, Blind Lemon Jefferson, the NRA, baseball, JFK, and being a rich kid in a private school. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
World War II Posters is a collection of 245 original posters from WWII in black & white related to savings and investment, productivity and invention, service and support, environmentalism and conservation, security and trust, freedom and sacrifice, friends and allies, health and safety, and victory gardens. The federal government produced and distributed informational materials to attract and encourage public support for the money, material resources, labor, and personal sacrifices needed to mount a successful war effort. The Office of War Information distributed posters on a national scale to post offices, schools, and railroad stations. Defense Councils in each community were instructed to form a committee to regularly receive posters. The committee determined the number needed by the community, selected posting locations, and set up a route and distribution system. New posters were distributed at the beginning of each month.
The Artificial Southerner tracks the manifestations and ramifications of "Southern identity"--the relationship among a self-conscious, invented regionalism, the real distinctiveness of Southern culture, and the influence of the South in America. In these essays columnist Philip Martin explores the region and those who have both fled and embraced it. He offers lyric portraits of Southerners real, imagined, and absentee: musicians (James Brown, the Rolling Stones, Johnny Cash), writers (Richard Ford, Eudora Welty), politicians (Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter). He also considers such topics as the architecture of E. Fay Jones, the biracial nature of country music, and the idea of "white trash." "Every American has a South within," he says, "a conquered territory, an old wound . . . a scar." His work meditates on the rock and roll, the literature, the life, and the love which proceed from that inner, self-created South.
Craving for a fulfilling, rewarding and gratifying life is overwhelming for George Grey. George Grey, a man in his forties, has come to a point in his life where he no longer can hide the disappointment he feels about his life. One Saturday after celebrating the life of a friend with his two closest childhood friends, he is confronted with the choice of maintaining the distasteful status quo of his life or facing the challenges of changing it.
A Compassionate and Spiritual Approach to Rediscovering Joy Using easy-to-follow techniques and practical advice, Philip Martin shows you how to ease depression through the spiritual practice of Zen. His lessons, full of gentle guidance and sensitivity, are a product of his experiences in using Zen practices and wisdom to alleviate his own depression. Each chapter focuses on a different aspect of depression and recommends a meditation or reflection. With these tools, coping with depression becomes a way to mend the spirit while enriching the soul.
Some 10 million migrant workers cross national borders each year and, if they pay an average $1,000 to recruiters, moving workers over borders is a $10 billion a year business. Merchants of Labor examines the businesses that move low-skilled workers over national borders, asking how much they collect from migrant workers and what can be done to reduce worker-paid migration costs. For-profit recruiters are likely to be an enduring feature of international labor migration, which makes developing tools to improve the management of their activities ever more crucial. The UN recognized in the Sustainable Development Goals for 2030 the need to measure what workers pay to get jobs in other countries with the goal of reducing worker-paid costs so that workers and their families can benefit more from international labor migration. Using cost data from over 3,000 workers, Merchants of Labor examines the often murky world of labor brokers, travel agents, and others who move low-skilled workers from one country to another in order to explore lower worker-paid migration costs. It explains the three core functions of labor markets-- recruitment, remuneration, and retention-- and shows how national borders increase recruitment costs. New data on what workers pay to get jobs in other countries are presented, and incentives to complement enforcement are explored as a way to induce recruiters to protect migrant workers.
This book will help stockbrokers pass the NASD Series 7 exam. This book has 1,000 sample questions and a study guide with math formulas. There are eight 125-question practice exams." Here is the information about the book which just started appearing on the web sites of major online retailers such as amazon.com and borders.com. Stockbroker Series 7 Exam General Securities Registered Representative Examination Practice Exams and Study Guide.
The Weasel Squadron chronicles the adventures of Major Tommy "Poppy" Weasel and his two Marine Corps officer friends, Stout and Dobratz, from their helicopter training through the Grenada Invasion. The story picks up again after their retirement, when they are asked by General Irons to go undercover on a top secret mission to the country of Flatistan to help rescue American hostages. The mission is extremely dangerous because Flatistan is run by the ruthless dictator Mumu Kolache and his two sons Adolf and Pol Pot. Meanwhile, in Flatistan, the hostages play an exhibition lacrosse game against the guards and the guards cause serious intentional injury to the hostages. Kolache plans to put the hostages on trial as spies then sentence them to death by stoning. Poppy and his team rescue the hostages, then the hostages sneak off to steal the gold that a drunken guard told them was hidden in the royal palace. The adventures of Poppy, Stout, and Dobratz were made into a television series called Pop Goes the Weasel. The series was parodied in a movie called The Squeaky Weasel Squadron.
This book will help exam takers pass the ASPPA DB Examination on Administrative Issues of Defined Benefit Plans. The questions are in the same format as those on the ASPPA DB exam. All of the questions are straightforward multiple-choice questions with five choices and one best answer. Part I of this book contains the sample exams with a total of 260 questions, the equivalent of four complete 65-question ASPPA DB exams. Each 65-question practice exam is followed by an answer key. After the answer key, the practice exam is displayed with the answers shown. Part II of this book has a study guide. There is a section for each topic covered on the ASPPA DB exam. The answers to the questions and the study guide include details on the math formulas needed for the exam.
On October 24-25, 1942, Marine Sergeant John Basilone was in charge of two sections of heavy machine guns defending a narrow pass to Henderson Airfield on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands. Although vastly outnumbered, Manila John and his fellow Marines checked the assault by the Japanese. For that, Sgt. Basilone was awarded the Medal of Honor and sent back to the states to appear at war-bond rallies. He toured the country and met Hollywood starlets. His picture made the cover of Life magazine. But Sergeant Basilone was unsatisfied back home and volunteered to return to combat, ending up at Iwo Jima. Under heavy artillery fire on February 19, 1945, he singlehandedly took out an enemy blockhouse. Minutes later, he and four others in his platoon died in an artillery blast. Sergeant Basilone was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross and Purple Heart, making him the only enlisted Marine in World War II to receive all three medals.
This book will help investment professionals pass the Series 7 General Securities Representative Qualification Examination. It is a study guide in outline form. There is a section for each topic covered on the Series 7 exam, including regulatory requirements, customer's profile, customer accounts, business conduct, orders and transactions, ethics, the primary marketplace, the secondary market, economics, analysis, equity securities, debt securities, packaged securities, options, retirement plans, and savings accounts. The study outline includes details on the math formulas needed for the test. The study outline is based on the exam syllabus and contains the information on the required knowledge areas that could most likely be asked in the form of a multiple choice question.
McCaulay's CFA Level I Sample Mock Exam consists of two 120-question exams, with each exam followed by an answer key and the exam with the answers shown, including the formulas used to derive the numeric answers. The question formats and topic weights are similar to the actual CFA Level I exam. The questions were transformed from the study material in the CFA Institute Program Curriculum available from the CFA Institute. The sample exam is designed to complement the CFA Program curriculum and to facilitate the learning process, not to be used as a substitute for study of the prescribed curriculum. The morning exam is Exam 11 from McCaulay's CFA Level I Practice Exams Volume II of V and the afternoon exam is Exam 21 from McCaulay's CFA Level I Practice Exams Volume III of V.
American agriculture employs some 2.5 million workers during a typical year, most for fewer than six months. Three fourths of these farm workers are immigrants, half are unauthorized, and most will leave seasonal farm work within a decade. What do these statistics mean for farmers, for laborers, for rural America? This book addresses the question by reviewing what is happening on farms and in the towns and cities where immigrant farm workers settle with their families. Philip Martin finds that the business-labor model that has evolved in rural America is neither desirable nor sustainable. He proposes regularizing U.S. farm workers and rationalizing the farm labor market, an approach that will help American farmers stay globally competitive while also improving conditions for farm workers.
This study closely analyses sonnets to bring out what they can tell us of different kinds of love, particularly self-love, the relation of these to the world of natural growth and temporal succession, and finally the ways in which art can properly be defined as a form of love.
This book compares the effects of digitalization and automation on the working lives of low-skilled migrants in Europe and USA. The comparative analysis outlines the change in work and workers, and offers practical suggestions for policy makers, practitioners and all those interested in successfully integrating migrants.
If you have ever thought 'There is something wrong with me', then you want freedom from the pain associated with this & similar instructions. Finally you can have the answers & solutions to the problem of the negative beliefs we have about ourselves, such as 'I am nothing', I am worthless, 'I am not good enough' & similar soul destroying thoughts. You will discover how these beliefs are formed & maintained. This must have book shows the root problem of our behaviours & emotional turmoil. Our destiny is to have a life filled with joy, wholeness, optimism, health, self control, & inner peace. These are difficult to achieve with our existing patterns but easy & natural to achieve once you know how.
This book is a major reappraisal of Byron's poetry, which despite his enormous influence, the poetry is often of inferior quality and so inconsistent in its attitudes that Byron's poetic seriousness is inevitably called into question. Dr Martin considers the nature of Byron's relationship with his public and its effect on his poetry.
This is an illustrated collection of fifty of the greatest nursery rhymes or traditional songs for young children. Nursery rhymes aid in a child's development. Music and rhyme increase a child's ability in spatial reasoning which leads to greater success in school in the subjects of mathematics and science.
This book will help stockbroker exam takers pass the Series 7 General Securities Registered Representative Examination. The questions are in the same format as those on the Series 7. All of the questions are brief, straightforward multiple-choice questions with four choices and one best answer. Part I of this book contains the sample exams with a total of 1,000 questions, the equivalent of four complete 250-question Series 7 exams. The 250-question exams are in two parts. Each 125-question practice exam is followed by an answer key. After the answer key, the practice exam is displayed with the answers shown. Part II of this book has a study guide. There is a section for each topic covered on the Series 7 exam, including equities, fixed income, money market, investment companies, mutual funds, direct participation programs, retirement plans, underwriting, exchanges, options, margin accounts and short sales, analysis, regulation, and taxation. The study guide includes details on the math formulas needed for the Series 7 exam.
This book will help investment professionals pass the Investment Company Products/ Variable Contracts Limited Representative Qualifications Examination. It is a study guide in outline form. There is a section for each topic covered on the Series 6 test, including Securities Markets, Investment Securities and Economic Factors; Securities and Tax Regulations; Marketing, Prospecting and Sales Presentations; Evaluation of Customers; Product Information, Investment Company Securities and Variable Contracts; and Opening and Servicing Customer Accounts. The study guide includes details on the math formulas needed for the test.
This book will help investment professionals pass the Series 7 General Securities Representative Qualification Examination. It contains fourteen 125-question practice exams with a total of 1,750 questions. The sample questions are the type that are most likely to appear on the Series 7 test and are in the same format as those on the exam.The questions are straightforward multiple choice questions with four choices and one best answer. Each 125-question practice test is followed by the answer key. After the answer key, each practice exam is repeated with the answers shown and the formulas for the math questions.There are questions for each topic covered on the Series 7 exam, including regulatory requirements, customer's profile, customer accounts, business conduct, orders and transactions, ethics, the primary marketplace, the secondary market, economics, analysis, equity securities, debt securities, packaged securities, options, retirement plans, and savings accounts.
Good fantasy literature is far more than a bunch of elves, dwarves, hobbits or other imaginary creatures running around fighting dragons, ogres, or orcs and having adventures. The Purpose of Fantasy looks at some of the core spiritual values of a dozen beloved fantasy books. With an introduction about fantasy literature in general, it holds up to the light a key purpose of fantasy: to ask spiritual or philosophical questions and explore creative approaches to matters of faith and belief, good and bad, right and wrong, and other deeply held, intangible values. With its succinct discussion of twelve great books, from classics like The Little Prince and The Wind in the Willows to more contemporary novels by modern masters of fantasy like Ursula K. Le Guin, Neil Gaiman, Peter S. Beagle, and Natalie Babbitt, this book offers good ideas for literary book clubs or for individual reading and insight. Philip Martin is an award-winning author and editor of many books for adults and young readers. He is also the author of A Guide to Fantasy Literature and a number of books of advice for authors, including How To Write Your Best Story. He lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
McCaulay's CFA Level I Practice Exams are published in a five volume set, with each volume containing eight 120-question exams, for a total of 960 questions. The entire five volume set has forty exams and a total of 4,800 questions. Each exam has an answer key followed by the exam with the answers shown, including the formulas used to derive the numeric answers. The question formats and topic weights are similar to the actual CFA Level I exam. The questions were transformed from the study material in the CFA Institute Program Curriculum available from the CFA Institute. The practice exams are designed to complement the CFA Program curriculum and to facilitate the learning process, not to be used as a substitute for study of the prescribed curriculum.
McCaulay's CFA Level I Practice Exams are published in a five volume set, with each volume containing eight 120-question exams, for a total of 960 questions. The entire five volume set has forty exams and a total of 4,800 questions. Each exam has an answer key followed by the exam with the answers shown, including the formulas used to derive the numeric answers. The question formats and topic weights are similar to the actual CFA Level I exam. The questions were transformed from the study material in the CFA Institute Program Curriculum available from the CFA Institute. The practice exams are designed to complement the CFA Program curriculum and to facilitate the learning process, not to be used as a substitute for study of the prescribed curriculum.
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