Number: RL33372
Title: Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Workers: Protective Statutes
Authors: William G. Whittaker, Domestic Social Policy Division 
Abstract: This report is a summary and a survey, spelling out the considerations that Congress found were a part of the realities of agricultural employment in 20th (and 21st) Century America. It begins in the 1960s with the advent of FLCRA, and proceeds through the enactment of the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Workers' Protection Act (MSPA) and to the end of the century. But, it is also a summary of developments in the history of the two statutes, written from the perspective of a labor economist. It may, from time to time, be revised as new developments occur. Thus far, in the 110th Congress, no new legislation has been considered that would amend MSPA.
Pages: 67
Date: August 29, 2007