Harvest of confusion: SAWs RAWs and farmworkers.

This paper explains the evolution and nature of Californias labor-intensive agriculture which has become most dependent on alien workers; the Special Agricultural Worker or SAW legalization program that generated over 1.2 million applicants; and the hypothetical calculations required to determine whether Replenishment Agricultural Workers or RAWs will be admitted to do farm work after 1990. The paper concludes that immigration reform did not resolve the century-old debate over agricultures need for alien workers; instead SAWs and RAWs contribute to the harvest of confusion on farm labor. (EXCERPT)