Latino/a Farmworkers’ Concerns about Safety and Health in the Pennsylvania Mushroom Industry

Sexsmith, Kathleen; Palacios, Effie E; Gorgo-Gourovitch, Maria; Arredondo, Ilse A Huerta

doi:10.1080/1059924x.2021.1935374

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“…Our PRISMA search revealed only a small number of publications focused primarily on climate change and agriculture that also discussed the significant impacts of climate change on the lived experience of farm workers [ 41 , 42 , 43 , 44 , 45 ]. This small number belies the larger body of work that does study farmworkers and implicitly addresses their experiences of climate change in many cases [ 7 , 16 , 44 , 46 , 47 , 48 , 49 , 50 , 51 ]. However, as described in the Conclusion, it remains clear that the body of literature examining impacts of environmental change and automation on agriculture could further consider those whose lives and wellbeing are most directly affected by these changes.…”

Section: Technology and Climate Change In The Literature As It Pertai...mentioning

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Automation, Climate Change, and the Future of Farm Work: Cross-Disciplinary Lessons for Studying Dynamic Changes in Agricultural Health and Safety

Comi

Becot

Bendixsen

2023

IJERPH

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In this review, we first assess the state of agricultural health and safety research as it pertains to the dynamic challenges facing automating agriculture on a warming planet. Then, we turn to social science fields such as rural sociology, science and technology studies, and environmental studies to leverage relevant insights on the introduction of new technologies, environmental risks, and associated workplace hazards. Increased rates of automation in agriculture alongside new risks associated with climate change create the need for anticipatory governance and adaptive research to study novel mechanisms of worker health and safety. The use of the PRISMA framework led to the 137 articles for our review. We identify three themes in the literature on agricultural health and safety: (1) adoption outcomes, (2) discrete cases of health risks, and (3) an emphasis on care and wellbeing in literature on dairy automation Our review led to the identification of research gaps, noting that current research (a) tends to examine these forces separately, instead of together, (b) has not made robust examination of these forces as socially embedded, and (c) has hesitated to examine the broad, transferable themes for how these forces work across industries. In response to these gaps, we suggest that attention to outside disciplines may provide agricultural health and safety research with a toolset to examine needed inquiry into the multiplicity of experiences of rural stakeholders, the industry specific problems arising from automation and climate change, and the socially embedded aspects of agricultural work in the future.

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Section: Technology and Climate Change In The Literature As It Pertai...mentioning

confidence: 91%

Automation, Climate Change, and the Future of Farm Work: Cross-Disciplinary Lessons for Studying Dynamic Changes in Agricultural Health and Safety

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Becot

Bendixsen

2023

IJERPH

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“…Similarly, a growing number of studies have reported that vulnerable workers experience higher physical workplace hazards (Brown et al, 2021). Results of several studies showed that Black People (Seabury et al, 2017), Latinx (Sexsmith et al, 2021), older workers (Bravo et al, 2020), younger workers (Fraade-Blanar et al, 2017), and immigrant workers (Brown et al, 2021) suffer more workplace injuries. Furthermore, reflecting the wider society, the working milieu frequently recreates the hierarchy of power and legitimizes racist or prejudicial behaviours (Allan et al, 2021;Blustein, 2019a).…”

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Precariousness in the time of COVID-19: A turning point for reforming and reorganizing career counselling for vulnerable workers

Fabio

Svicher²

2022

CJES

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The aim of the present article is to purpose new career counselling perspectives for vulnerable workers in the time of COVID-19 recession. We summarize perspectives on vulnerable workers following a recently advanced taxonomy on the work precarity framework characterized by three broad categories: precarity of work (i.e. fear and concern associated with the continuity of employment), precarity at work (i.e. psychosocial or physical safety at work, including discrimination, harassment, and unsafe working conditions), and precarity from work (i.e. uncertainty and insecurity due to maintaining employment that does not satisfy the basic needs of workers). These three facets of precariousness are frequently experienced by vulnerable workers, and they are related to poorer mental and physical health. The COVID-19 pandemic dramatically exacerbated this trend for vulnerable workers. Thus, suggestions for mitigating the impact of the current crisis are presented. Our perspective deals with the psychology of sustainability, sustainable development, and the psychology of working theory. In this framework, vocational psychologists could reform and reorganize specific career counselling practices for vulnerable workers, promoting sustainable and decent work and inclusivity. This could be achieved by applying four key points. 1) Enrich career counselling interventions with the processes of self-identity, reflection, and reflexivity on what constitutes actual sustainability for vulnerable workers in terms of professional and personal development. 2) Promote the use of an evidence-based methodology in accordance with the accountability principles for the 21st century. 3) Advocate to enrich available services with positive primary preventive strength-based actions and interventions through timely differentiated career counselling strategies. 4) Encourage applied research and practices to find new ways to balance resources with evidence-based efficacy; for example, by using the power of the audience in group-based life design counselling. Keywords: career counselling, decent work, precarious work, psychology of sustainability, vulnerable workers.

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Environmental Justice, Equity and Cancer

Nogueira,

White

2023

Environmental Oncology

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Latino/a Farmworkers’ Concerns about Safety and Health in the Pennsylvania Mushroom Industry

Cited by 8 publications

References 34 publications

Automation, Climate Change, and the Future of Farm Work: Cross-Disciplinary Lessons for Studying Dynamic Changes in Agricultural Health and Safety

Automation, Climate Change, and the Future of Farm Work: Cross-Disciplinary Lessons for Studying Dynamic Changes in Agricultural Health and Safety

Precariousness in the time of COVID-19: A turning point for reforming and reorganizing career counselling for vulnerable workers

Environmental Justice, Equity and Cancer

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