Đánh giá các chương trình lao động nước ngoài tạm thời qua lăng kính của Chương trình Lao động Nông nghiệp Mùa vụ Canada: liệu có thể cải cách hay nên bị loại bỏ?

Dialectical Anthropology - Tập 43 - Trang 347-366 - 2019
Arthur Leigh Binford1
1City University of New York (emeritus), New York, USA

Tóm tắt

Bài báo này đánh giá các Chương trình Lao động Nước ngoài Tạm thời (TFWPs) thông qua lăng kính của Chương trình Lao động Nông nghiệp Mùa vụ Canada (SAWP), thường được coi là một mô hình nhờ vào nhiều quyền lợi được cấp cho người lao động và nhiều hình thức bảo vệ được thiết lập để bảo vệ những quyền lợi đó. Một nghiên cứu cẩn thận về các tài liệu nhân học và xã hội học hiện có, bao gồm cả công trình của tác giả, cho thấy sức mạnh to lớn mà các nhà sản xuất nắm giữ đối với lao động nước ngoài tạm thời đến từ Mexico và nhiều quốc gia vùng Caribbean nói tiếng Anh. Hai hệ quả của sức mạnh này là sự gia tăng năng suất và sự mở rộng của SAWP, đến mức nó chiếm ưu thế trong các lĩnh vực chính của nông nghiệp Canada. Người lao động hoặc không được tham gia vào các công đoàn, hoặc bị trừng phạt, trong một số trường hợp, thông qua việc bị đưa vào danh sách đen vì đã thành lập các đơn vị đàm phán địa phương. Tác giả đề xuất rằng tất cả các chương trình như vậy nên được giải thể. Ít nhất, câu hỏi về tương lai của TFWPs xứng đáng được thảo luận một cách cởi mở và thẳng thắn.

Từ khóa

#Lao động nước ngoài tạm thời #Chương trình Lao động Nông nghiệp Mùa vụ #quyền lợi người lao động #sản xuất nông nghiệp #Canada.

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