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Implications of Medical Insurance Among Farmworkers: A Case Study from Rural California. by Kathryn Azevedo Worldwide, agricultural laborers struggle to meet the basic needs of their families, doing work that remains arduous and low paying and that entails substantial occupational health risks. In the United States, research studies continue to document the exploitation experienced by this hard working, but socially invisible, occupational group (Bade, 1993; Barger and Reza, 1987; Griffith and Kissam, 1995; Guendelman, 1991; Johnson, 1985; Koos, 1957; Martin and Martin, 1994; Palerm, 1994; Villarejo,2000; Wells, 1996). The low-income California residents who are the focus of this research are California's working poor - farmworker families. This occupational group is unique in that many safety regulations governing other occupational groups are not applied to agricultural labor. In the midst of California's agricultural prosperity, this group of workers remains largely hidden in our society.
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