TY  - THES
AB  - Agricultural apprenticeships are an increasingly popular labor relation in which apprentices provide farm labor in exchange for training/education, a stipend, housing, and/or food. Apprenticeships are taking place on small-scale and medium-scale, ecologically-oriented farms typically selling to local or regional markets.  These farms are situated within an alternative food movement (AFM) that perpetuates agrarian ideology idealizing farmers but ignoring farmworkers. Given the AFM's inattention to workers, small farms' struggling economic viability, and misconceptions about labor justice on small farms, this research studied how agricultural apprenticeships address social equity. Specifically, this research examined the goals and practices of agricultural apprenticeships in the United States and the extent to which these apprenticeships achieve social justice. Evaluating twenty-six agricultural apprenticeship programs using grounded theory, this thesis found programs' top goals to be educating about sustainable agriculture and creating new farmers; programs less commonly educate about social justice or aim to create new farmworkers.
AD  - Marylhurst University:
AU  - Fischer, Kaitlin
DA  - 2017
DO  - 10.6083/1g05fc316
DO  - DOI
ID  - 7704
KW  - Agriculture
KW  - Work
KW  - Farmers
KW  - Internship, Nonmedical
L1  - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/7704/files/Fischer.Kaitlin.2017.pdf
L2  - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/7704/files/Fischer.Kaitlin.2017.pdf
L4  - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/7704/files/Fischer.Kaitlin.2017.pdf
LK  - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/7704/files/Fischer.Kaitlin.2017.pdf
N2  - Agricultural apprenticeships are an increasingly popular labor relation in which apprentices provide farm labor in exchange for training/education, a stipend, housing, and/or food. Apprenticeships are taking place on small-scale and medium-scale, ecologically-oriented farms typically selling to local or regional markets.  These farms are situated within an alternative food movement (AFM) that perpetuates agrarian ideology idealizing farmers but ignoring farmworkers. Given the AFM's inattention to workers, small farms' struggling economic viability, and misconceptions about labor justice on small farms, this research studied how agricultural apprenticeships address social equity. Specifically, this research examined the goals and practices of agricultural apprenticeships in the United States and the extent to which these apprenticeships achieve social justice. Evaluating twenty-six agricultural apprenticeship programs using grounded theory, this thesis found programs' top goals to be educating about sustainable agriculture and creating new farmers; programs less commonly educate about social justice or aim to create new farmworkers.
PB  - Marylhurst University: Oregon Health and Science University
PY  - 2017
T1  - Agricultural apprenticeships: reproducing traditional labor relations in the alternative food movement?
TI  - Agricultural apprenticeships: reproducing traditional labor relations in the alternative food movement?
UR  - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/7704/files/Fischer.Kaitlin.2017.pdf
Y1  - 2017
ER  -