Biography
Philip Martin is Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Davis. He edits Rural Migration News, has served on several federal commissions, and testifies frequently before Congress. He is an award-winning author who works for UN agencies around the world on labor and migration issues. His latest book is Merchants of Labor: Recruiters and International Labor Migration, a pioneering analysis of recruiters in low-skilled labor markets explaining the prominent role of labor intermediaries, from Oxford University Press.
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Record-low number of federal wage and hour investigations of farms in 2022: Congress must increase funding for labor standards enforcement to protect farmworkers
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Federal labor standards enforcement in agriculture: Data reveal the biggest violators and raise new questions about how to improve and target efforts to protect farmworkers
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How much would it cost consumers to give farmworkers a significant raise?: A 40% increase in pay would cost just $25 per household
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Nine in 10 farmworkers could be covered by the paid leave provisions of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act—but not if smaller employers are exempted
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Coronavirus and farmworkers: Farm employment, safety issues, and the H-2A guestworker program
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OECD highlights temporary labor migration: Almost as many guestworkers as permanent immigrants
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Temporary labor migration programs: Governance, migrant worker rights, and recommendations for the U.N. Global Compact for Migration
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New UN data on international migrants highlights special responsibility for destination countries in the Global Compact for Migration
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UN Secretary General’s report on migration highlights the need for government action and cooperation, but lacks key guidance on labor migration
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United States fails to participate in key global conversations on migration
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Agricultural guestworkers: The challenge of the expanding H-2A program
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The UN Global Compact and labor migration: What can we expect?
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Why the UN Global Compact on Migration matters
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The H-2A farm guestworker program is expanding rapidly: Here are the numbers you need to know
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Farmworker wages in California: Large gap between full-time equivalent and actual earnings
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Farm exports and farm labor: Would a Raise for Fruit and Vegetable Workers Diminish the Competitiveness of U.S. Agriculture?