Emergency labor program 1942 ford

          Motor Corps members generally drove their personal vehicles, but Ford-built ambulances were also used to transport the sick and wounded.

        1. Motor Corps members generally drove their personal vehicles, but Ford-built ambulances were also used to transport the sick and wounded.
        2. The year marked the birth of the well-known bracero programme between Mexico and the.
        3. Certain aspects of the pro- gram, particularly the provision of housing and medical care, were adapted from a farm labor program that had developed during.
        4. Into the country as foreign nationals through the emergency Farm Labor or.
        5. The FSA launched the Emergency Farm Labor Supply Program, also known as the Labor Importation or Transportation Program, to recruit foreign contract-.

          6. Certain aspects of the pro- gram, particularly the provision of housing and medical care, were adapted from a farm labor program that had developed during....

          Bracero Program

          1942–1964 migrant worker program

          The Bracero Program (from the Spanish term bracero[bɾaˈse.ɾo], meaning "manual laborer" or "one who works using his arms") was a U.S.

          Government-sponsored program that imported Mexican farm and railroad workers into the United States between the years 1942 and 1964.

          The program, which was designed to fill agriculture shortages during World War II, offered employment contracts to 5 million braceros in 24 U.S.

          states. It was the largest guest worker program in U.S. history.[1]

          The program was the result of a series of laws and diplomatic agreements, initiated on August 4, 1942, when the United States signed the Mexican Farm Labor Agreement with Mexico.[2] For these farmworkers, the agreement guaranteed decent living conditions (sanitation, adequate shelter, and food) and a minimum wage of 30 cents an hour, as well as protections from forced military service, and guaranteed that a part of wages wa