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2020
Abstract Mexico, like other Spanish colonies in the Americas, developed a haciendas or latifundia system of farming that required local residents to work for large landowners in exchange for housing and food; 2,000 families owned almost 90 percent of Mexico’s rural land on the eve of the revolution that lasted from 1910 to 1917 and gave ...
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Abstract Mexico, like other Spanish colonies in the Americas, developed a haciendas or latifundia system of farming that required local residents to work for large landowners in exchange for housing and food; 2,000 families owned almost 90 percent of Mexico’s rural land on the eve of the revolution that lasted from 1910 to 1917 and gave ...
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2020
Abstract Hired farm workers do two-thirds of US farm work. The hired labor system that developed in the western US in the nineteenth century has spread across the US, as the large farms that hire most farm workers expect seasonal crews to be available when needed and to fend for themselves in the off season.
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Abstract Hired farm workers do two-thirds of US farm work. The hired labor system that developed in the western US in the nineteenth century has spread across the US, as the large farms that hire most farm workers expect seasonal crews to be available when needed and to fend for themselves in the off season.
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OFF-FARM WORK PARTICIPATION, OFF-FARM LABOR SUPPLY AND ON-FARM LABOR DEMAND OF U.S. FARM OPERATORS
1997An agricultural household model provides the framework for modeling off-farm work participation and off-farm and on-farm work decisions of farm operators. The empirical results are obtained from fitting the econometric model to data from a large national survey.
Huffman, Wallace E. +3 more
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1970
On August 11,1970, following an incident involving federal antipoverty officials at a migrant camp, the director of labor standards was directed to investigate the entire migrant labor situation. This document contains that report.
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On August 11,1970, following an incident involving federal antipoverty officials at a migrant camp, the director of labor standards was directed to investigate the entire migrant labor situation. This document contains that report.
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1937
Proceedings of the Western Farm Economics Association Tenth Annual Meeting, Reno NV, June 24-26 ...
Orr, Alden E., Orr, Alden E.
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Proceedings of the Western Farm Economics Association Tenth Annual Meeting, Reno NV, June 24-26 ...
Orr, Alden E., Orr, Alden E.
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1982
Changes in regulations that would have allowed employers of H-2 temporary foreign agricultural workers to pay the Federal minimum wage instead of the higher adverse effect wage, would have lowered the estimated 1980 wage bill of H-2 employers by about 19 percent. The U.S.
Pollack, Susan L. +5 more
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Changes in regulations that would have allowed employers of H-2 temporary foreign agricultural workers to pay the Federal minimum wage instead of the higher adverse effect wage, would have lowered the estimated 1980 wage bill of H-2 employers by about 19 percent. The U.S.
Pollack, Susan L. +5 more
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1940
Proceedings of the Western Farm Economics Association Thirteenth Annual Meeting, Pullman, WA, July 10-12 ...
Benedict, M.R., Benedict, M.R.
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Proceedings of the Western Farm Economics Association Thirteenth Annual Meeting, Pullman, WA, July 10-12 ...
Benedict, M.R., Benedict, M.R.
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California's Farm Labor Market
1987This report examines California's farm labor market. It reviews the characteristics of farm employers, analyzes trends in farmworker employment, summarizes what is known about who does farmwork, and examines the operation of the farm labor market. After this substantial amount of background, several farm labor issues are reviewed: unions, migrancy ...
Martin, Philip L., Martin, Philip L.
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Farm Labor Markets: Discussion
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1977These two papers come to the optimistic conclusions that the farm and nonfarm labor markets have become more integrated and are functioning so as to reduce the excess of labor in agriculture. Huffman expresses the hope that public policy will not shield agriculture from "needed long-term resource adjustments, especially the reduction of labor in ...
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