000007704 001__ 7704 000007704 005__ 20231215152029.0 000007704 0247_ $$2DOI$$a10.6083/1g05fc316 000007704 037__ $$aETD 000007704 245__ $$aAgricultural apprenticeships: reproducing traditional labor relations in the alternative food movement? 000007704 260__ $$bMarylhurst University: Oregon Health and Science University 000007704 269__ $$a2017 000007704 336__ $$aThesis 000007704 502__ $$gFood Systems & Society 000007704 520__ $$aAgricultural 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. Apprenticeship practices, including hands-on training, vary considerably and are dependent on individual farms. Few programs formally evaluate host farmers. I assessed programs' goals and practices according to "five faces of oppression": powerlessness, exploitation, marginalization, cultural imperialism, and violence. I found that agricultural apprenticeships impede social justice in numerous ways for apprentices and other farmworkers, such as by excluding apprentices and farmworkers in their development and/or implementation. High variability in how the term agricultural "apprenticeship" is used contributes to apprentices' exploitation. I also explored similarities and differences between today's agricultural apprenticeships, industrialized farm labor relations, pre-modern apprenticeships, and apprenticeships in other industries. 000007704 650__ $$aAgriculture$$014366 000007704 650__ $$aWork$$027993 000007704 6531_ $$anonmedical internship 000007704 6531_ $$afarmworkers 000007704 691__ $$aSchool of Medicine 000007704 692__ $$aGraduate Programs in Human Nutrition 000007704 7001_ $$aFischer, Kaitlin 000007704 8564_ $$986353e77-e999-442e-b997-d48ec02c602d$$s1292818$$uhttps://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/7704/files/Fischer.Kaitlin.2017.pdf 000007704 905__ $$a/rest/prod/1g/05/fc/31/1g05fc316 000007704 909CO $$ooai:digitalcollections.ohsu.edu:7704$$pstudent-work 000007704 980__ $$aFood Systems & Society