ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book explains that there are migrant workers, seasonal workers, and guestworkers laboring on farms in the United States, and more than 50 percent of all the 2.7 million+ workers are not legally authorized to work in the United States. It identifies the key policy areas for making changes for farmworkers as: labor, housing, pesticide, healthcare, and immigration policy. The book details the case of the Farmworker Association of Florida (FWAF), an organization formed in the early 1980s by farmworkers, and that works across the whole state through its five chapters. It illustrates, farmers' and farmworkers' well-being are inextricably linked in small-scale organic agriculture. The book examines multiple pathways to change for farmworkers that are underway within agriculture and the broader environmental justice movement.
