Doctoral Dissertation Research: Bio-Cultural Consequences of Changes in the Scale and Organization of Agricultural Work

博士候选人Dvera Saxton（美国大学），由布雷特威廉姆斯博士监督，将调查区域社会经济生产系统的类型和规模与工人健康之间的关系。这项研究将在加州中部海岸的移民农场工人中进行，重点是传统和有机农业生产系统中组织和工作规模的差异效应。研究问题包括：（1）生产和劳动是如何组织的？(2)组织差异如何塑造农场工人的健康体验？(3)农场工人如何应对工作对身体的影响？研究方法将包括民族志访谈，参与者观察和健康感知地图。这项研究是重要的，因为它将有助于社会科学理论的工作组织和体现在不断变化的农业生产系统的背景下的人类经验之间的新关系。这项工作的结果也将阐明可持续生产系统的社会影响。支持这项研究也支持研究生的教育。

PhD candidate Dvera Saxton (American University), supervised by Dr. Brett Williams, will investigate the relationship between types and scales of regional socioeconomic production systems and worker health. The research, which will be carried out among migrant farm workers in Central Coast California, will focus on the differential effects of the organization and scale of work in both conventional and organic agricultural production systems. Research questions include: 1) How are production and labor organized? (2) How do organizational differences shape farm worker health experiences? (3) How do farm workers respond to the physical effects of work? Research methods will include ethnographic interviews, participant observation, and health perception maps. This research is important because it will contribute to social scientific theory of the new relationships between the organization of work and embodied human experience in the context of changing agricultural production systems. Findings from this work also will elucidate the social effects of sustainable production systems. Supporting this research also supports the education of a graduate student.