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Brett Williams博士指导，将研究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，将重点放在传统农业生产系统和有机农业生产系统中工作的组织和规模的不同影响上。研究问题包括：1)生产和劳动是如何组织的？(2)组织差异如何影响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？研究方法将包括人种学访谈、参与者观察和健康感知图。这项研究是重要的，因为它将有助于在不断变化的农业生产系统的背景下，对工作组织和具体的人类经验之间的新关系的社会科学理论。这项工作的发现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了研究生的教育。

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.