Yazar: Martin Philip Martin

Why have ninety million workers around the globe left their homes for employment in other countries? What can be done to ensure that international labor migration is a force for global betterment? Th …

American agriculture employs some 2.5 million workers during a typical year, most for fewer than six months. Three fourths of these farm workers are immigrants, half are unauthorized, and most will l …

The Artificial Southerner tracks the manifestations and ramifications of "Southern identity"-the relationship among a self-conscious, invented regionalism, the real distinctiveness of South …

Through these varied essays on politics, ethics, music, race, and culture Philip Martin admits a minor obsession with what he calls the American Frolic the essential lack of seriousness with which ma …