Author: Wendell Marlin McMillan
Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture, Cooperative
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Cooperative Bargaining by Farmers
Author: Wendell Marlin McMillan
Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture, Cooperative
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture, Cooperative
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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American Agriculture and the Problem of Monopoly
Author: Jon Lauck
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 080329526X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
The breathtaking number of mergers and joint ventures among agribusiness firms has left independent American farmers facing the power of an increasingly concentrated buying sector. The origin of farmers' concern with such economic concentration dates back to protests against meatpackers and railroads in the late nineteenth century. Jon Lauck examines the dimensions of this problem in the American Midwest in the decades following World War II. He analyzes the nature of competition within meat-packing and grain markets. In addition, he addresses concerns about corporate entry into production agriculture and the potential displacement of a production system defined by independent family farms. Lauck also considers the ability of farmers to organize in order to counter the market power of large-scale agribusiness buyers. He explores the use of farmer cooperatives and other mechanisms which may increase the bargaining power of farmers. The book offers the first serious historical examination of the National Farmers Organization, which fully embraced the bargaining power cause in the postwar period. Lauck finds that independent farmers' attempts at organization have been more successful than previously recognized, but he also shows that their successes have been undermined by the growing concentration and power of agri-business firms, justifying a new approach to antitrust law in agricultural markets.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 080329526X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
The breathtaking number of mergers and joint ventures among agribusiness firms has left independent American farmers facing the power of an increasingly concentrated buying sector. The origin of farmers' concern with such economic concentration dates back to protests against meatpackers and railroads in the late nineteenth century. Jon Lauck examines the dimensions of this problem in the American Midwest in the decades following World War II. He analyzes the nature of competition within meat-packing and grain markets. In addition, he addresses concerns about corporate entry into production agriculture and the potential displacement of a production system defined by independent family farms. Lauck also considers the ability of farmers to organize in order to counter the market power of large-scale agribusiness buyers. He explores the use of farmer cooperatives and other mechanisms which may increase the bargaining power of farmers. The book offers the first serious historical examination of the National Farmers Organization, which fully embraced the bargaining power cause in the postwar period. Lauck finds that independent farmers' attempts at organization have been more successful than previously recognized, but he also shows that their successes have been undermined by the growing concentration and power of agri-business firms, justifying a new approach to antitrust law in agricultural markets.
Managing Cooperative Antitrust Risk
Author: Donald A. Frederick
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Category : Agriculture, Cooperative
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture, Cooperative
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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ACS Research Report
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Category : Agriculture, Cooperative
Languages : en
Pages : 56
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Category : Agriculture, Cooperative
Languages : en
Pages : 56
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Cooperatives in Agribusiness
Author: United States. Farmer Cooperative Service
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Category : Agricultural industries
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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Category : Agricultural industries
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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Agricultural Cooperatives in the 21st Century
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Category : Agriculture, Cooperative
Languages : en
Pages : 56
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Category : Agriculture, Cooperative
Languages : en
Pages : 56
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Contract Farming: Theory And Practice
Author: Erkan Rehber
Publisher: ICFAI Books
ISBN: 8131406202
Category : Agricultural contracts
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
Nowadays, agricultural-food system has been experiencing major changes which are driven mainly by recent developments in consumer preferences and attitudes, technological improvements, food safety issues and related regulations. The advanced agro-food sec
Publisher: ICFAI Books
ISBN: 8131406202
Category : Agricultural contracts
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
Nowadays, agricultural-food system has been experiencing major changes which are driven mainly by recent developments in consumer preferences and attitudes, technological improvements, food safety issues and related regulations. The advanced agro-food sec
News for Farmer Cooperatives
Author:
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Category : Agriculture, Cooperative
Languages : en
Pages : 582
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Category : Agriculture, Cooperative
Languages : en
Pages : 582
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The Fruits of Their Labor
Author: Cindy Hahamovitch
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807899925
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
In 1933 Congress granted American laborers the right of collective bargaining, but farmworkers got no New Deal. Cindy Hahamovitch's pathbreaking account of migrant farmworkers along the Atlantic Coast shows how growers enlisted the aid of the state in an unprecedented effort to keep their fields well stocked with labor. This is the story of the farmworkers--Italian immigrants from northeastern tenements, African American laborers from the South, and imported workers from the Caribbean--who came to work in the fields of New Jersey, Georgia, and Florida in the decades after 1870. These farmworkers were not powerless, the author argues, for growers became increasingly open to negotiation as their crops ripened in the fields. But farmers fought back with padrone or labor contracting schemes and 'work-or-fight' forced-labor campaigns. Hahamovitch describes how growers' efforts became more effective as federal officials assumed the role of padroni, supplying farmers with foreign workers on demand. Today's migrants are as desperate as ever, the author concludes, not because poverty is an inevitable feature of modern agricultural work, but because the federal government has intervened on behalf of growers, preventing farmworkers from enjoying the fruits of their labor.
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807899925
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
In 1933 Congress granted American laborers the right of collective bargaining, but farmworkers got no New Deal. Cindy Hahamovitch's pathbreaking account of migrant farmworkers along the Atlantic Coast shows how growers enlisted the aid of the state in an unprecedented effort to keep their fields well stocked with labor. This is the story of the farmworkers--Italian immigrants from northeastern tenements, African American laborers from the South, and imported workers from the Caribbean--who came to work in the fields of New Jersey, Georgia, and Florida in the decades after 1870. These farmworkers were not powerless, the author argues, for growers became increasingly open to negotiation as their crops ripened in the fields. But farmers fought back with padrone or labor contracting schemes and 'work-or-fight' forced-labor campaigns. Hahamovitch describes how growers' efforts became more effective as federal officials assumed the role of padroni, supplying farmers with foreign workers on demand. Today's migrants are as desperate as ever, the author concludes, not because poverty is an inevitable feature of modern agricultural work, but because the federal government has intervened on behalf of growers, preventing farmworkers from enjoying the fruits of their labor.
Economic Theory of Cooperation
Author: Ivan Vasiy Emelianoff
Publisher:
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 310
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Publisher:
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 310
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