Author: David Runsten
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Research report, agricultural mechanization, economic policy of technological change in the agricultural sector, Mexican migrant workers, USA - agrarian structure, historical background to foreign labour utilization, immigration trends, state intervention, structural changes after 1964, case study of tomato harvesting, agricultural policy implications. Bibliography, graphs, statistical tables.
Mechanization and Mexican Labor in California Agriculture
Author: David Runsten
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Research report, agricultural mechanization, economic policy of technological change in the agricultural sector, Mexican migrant workers, USA - agrarian structure, historical background to foreign labour utilization, immigration trends, state intervention, structural changes after 1964, case study of tomato harvesting, agricultural policy implications. Bibliography, graphs, statistical tables.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Research report, agricultural mechanization, economic policy of technological change in the agricultural sector, Mexican migrant workers, USA - agrarian structure, historical background to foreign labour utilization, immigration trends, state intervention, structural changes after 1964, case study of tomato harvesting, agricultural policy implications. Bibliography, graphs, statistical tables.
Mechanization in California Agriculture
Author: Alain De Janvry
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
The Movement Toward Mechanization
Author: California. Department of Agriculture
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
An Overview of California Agricultural Mechanization, 1870-1930
Author: Alan L. Olmstead
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Category : Agricultural machinery
Languages : en
Pages : 66
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Category : Agricultural machinery
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Labor's Dwindling Harvest
Author: California Institute for Rural Studies
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Category : Agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
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Category : Agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Symposium on Farm Mechanization
Author: California. Legislature. Assembly. Interim Committee on Agriculture
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Category : Farm mechanization
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Farm mechanization
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Technological Change, Farm Mechanization and Agricultural Employment
Author: University of California (System). Division of Agricultural Sciences
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Category : Agricultural innovations
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
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Category : Agricultural innovations
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Studies on Mechanization of Cotton Farming in California
Author: James Romeo Tavernetti
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
The Political Economy of Technological Change: Mechanization of Tomato Harvesting in California
Author:
Publisher: Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Publisher: Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
The Political Economy Of Mechanization In U.s. Agriculture
Author: Barry Price
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1000304515
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
For more than a decade the trend toward increased mechanization in U.S. agriculture has been the source of farm worker protests, legislative hearings, and lawsuits. (The recent case pitting the University of California’s prestigious agriculture research establishment against Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers is a prominent example of such litigation.) A key question in the controversy is whether federal and state governments should continue to invest more than $1 billion per year in the development of large-scale, capital-intensive technologies known to have significant social costs. Opponents of continued public support for these new technologies argue that they will eliminate thousands of farm jobs when the nation already suffers from a serious unemployment problem; proponents contend that such capital-intensive technologies keep food prices down for consumers while generating the potential for increased wages for farm workers. This book explores both sides of the debate, tracing the history of the mechanization issue and assessing the economic and sociological bases of the opposing positions. Maintaining that present methods of analysis are not adequate for resolving the conflict, Professor Price suggests an alternative approach, highlighted by a detailed case study of the costs and benefits generated by a new harvest technology adopted in the tomato-processing industry in California. He singles out the role of market structure as the most important variable in the distribution of benefits resulting from mechanization. Finally he relates his research findings to policy alternatives concerning farm mechanization in general, as well as to other problems involving technological change.
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1000304515
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
For more than a decade the trend toward increased mechanization in U.S. agriculture has been the source of farm worker protests, legislative hearings, and lawsuits. (The recent case pitting the University of California’s prestigious agriculture research establishment against Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers is a prominent example of such litigation.) A key question in the controversy is whether federal and state governments should continue to invest more than $1 billion per year in the development of large-scale, capital-intensive technologies known to have significant social costs. Opponents of continued public support for these new technologies argue that they will eliminate thousands of farm jobs when the nation already suffers from a serious unemployment problem; proponents contend that such capital-intensive technologies keep food prices down for consumers while generating the potential for increased wages for farm workers. This book explores both sides of the debate, tracing the history of the mechanization issue and assessing the economic and sociological bases of the opposing positions. Maintaining that present methods of analysis are not adequate for resolving the conflict, Professor Price suggests an alternative approach, highlighted by a detailed case study of the costs and benefits generated by a new harvest technology adopted in the tomato-processing industry in California. He singles out the role of market structure as the most important variable in the distribution of benefits resulting from mechanization. Finally he relates his research findings to policy alternatives concerning farm mechanization in general, as well as to other problems involving technological change.