Agricultural Personnel Management Program
University of California

Supported Project Reports

  • An Analysis of Contract Relationships between Farm Labor Contractors and Farmers in California Agriculture
  • Publication APMP004, by Dawn Thilmany and edited by Carole Frank Nuckton. Click to obtain in pdf format (requires Acrobat Reader).
  • Coping with Structural Job Displacement of Timber Industry Workers
  • Publication APMP002, by Donald R. Nelson, Peter C. Passof, and Elizabeth Bury. Click to obtain in pdf format (requires Acrobat Reader).
  • Growers' Decisions to Hire Farm Labor Contractors and Custom Harvesters
  • Publication APMP001, by Suzanne Vaupel. Click to obtain in pdf format (requires Acrobat Reader).
  • California Findings from the National Agricultural Workers Survey: A Demographic and Employment Profile of Perishable Crop Farm Workers
  • Joint publication of APMP and U.S. Department of Labor, by Howard Rosenberg, Susan Gabbard, Eric Alderete, and Richard Mines. Click to obtain in pdf format (requires Acrobat Reader).
  • Directly Hiring Workers Versus Using Farm Labor Contractors
  • Publication APMP003, by Sabrina Isé, Jeffrey Perloff, Stephen Sutter, and Suzanne Vaupel. Click to obtain in pdf format (requires Acrobat Reader).
  • Incentive Pay Research Summary
  • Gregory Encina Billikopf
  • Labor Management Laws in California Agriculture, 2nd Edition
  • DANR Publication 21404, by Howard Rosenberg, Valerie Horwitz, and Daniel Egan, 1995.  Click title for copy of preface, table of contents, and order information.
  • Personnel Decisions in the Family Farm Business
  • DANR Special Publication 3357, by Amy R. Lyman. Available from DANRPublications, 510/642-2431.
  • Report of APMP Activity, 1991-94

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