From telephones in rural Oaxaca to mobile phones among Mixtec farm workers in Oxnard, California
From telephones in rural Oaxaca to mobile phones among Mixtec farm workers in Oxnard, California
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10.1177/1461444816655098
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2017-12-01
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Jimenez, Carlos
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作者：
Jimenez, Carlos
来自墨西哥瓦哈卡州农村的墨西哥土著移民(Mixtecs)经历了高度的与世隔绝和季节性农业工作，但通信技术不断提高的速度有望克服这些困难。对于农场工人来说，最初使用固定电话和公共公用电话的经历充满了焦虑和错过连接的机会。尽管有移动电话的好处，但由于法律地位、高昂的成本和季节性工作的综合考虑，加利福尼亚州奥克斯纳德的Mixtec推迟了对移动电话的采用。本文发现，移动电话的采用和使用激增发生在整个加州草莓等劳动密集型作物产量增加、农场工人定居模式成熟、移动电话计划改变变得更负担得起和更容易理解的时期。手机的广泛使用为农场工人的非正式农业就业市场带来了更多的可预测性，但这并不一定意味着草莓田的工资更高。
Indigenous Mexican immigrants (Mixtecs) from rural Oaxaca, Mexico, experience a high level of isolation and seasonal farm work, but the increasing speed of communication technology stands to overcome these difficulties. For farm workers, the initial experience of landlines and public pay phones was filled with anxiety and missed connections. Despite the benefits of mobile phones, their adoption was delayed among Mixtec in Oxnard, California, because of a combination of legal status, high cost, and seasonal work. This article finds that a surge in mobile phone adoption and use took place during a time where production of labor-intensive crops like strawberries increased throughout California, farm worker settlement patterns matured, and mobile phone plans changed becoming more affordable and easier to understand. The widespread adoption of mobile phones brought more predictability to the informal agricultural job market for farm workers, but this did not necessarily mean higher wages in the strawberry fields.