- Title Pages
- Epigraph
- Foreword
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Prologue: Coming to America
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Chapter 1 Immigration to the United States -
Chapter 2 Agriculture and Migrants -
Part Two The Changing Face of Rural America -
Chapter 3 California Fruits and Vegetables -
Chapter 4 Florida Sugar, Oranges, and Tomatoes -
Chapter 5 Meat and Poultry -
Part Three Migrant Integration -
Chapter 6 Seasonal Worker Mobility -
Chapter 7 Migrants: The Integration Challenge -
Part Four Whither Rural America? -
Chapter 8 Labor Shortages, Mechanization, and Food Costs -
Chapter 9 Reforming U.S. Immigration Policies -
Chapter 10 Regularize and Rationalize Farm Labor - Epilogue: The Great Migration
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Appendix 1 . Farm Employment, Immigration, and Poverty - Bibliography
- Index
Labor Shortages, Mechanization, and Food Costs
Labor Shortages, Mechanization, and Food Costs
- Chapter:
- (p.141) Chapter 8 Labor Shortages, Mechanization, and Food Costs
- Source:
- Importing Poverty?
- Author(s):
Philip Martin
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
This chapter addresses the farm labor shortages, mechanization, and food costs. It explains different pictures of demand adjustments envisioned by economists and farmers and describes how labor-saving mechanization occurs in agriculture.
Keywords: farm labor shortages, mechanization, food costs, labor-saving mechanization, agriculture
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- Title Pages
- Epigraph
- Foreword
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Prologue: Coming to America
-
Chapter 1 Immigration to the United States -
Chapter 2 Agriculture and Migrants -
Part Two The Changing Face of Rural America -
Chapter 3 California Fruits and Vegetables -
Chapter 4 Florida Sugar, Oranges, and Tomatoes -
Chapter 5 Meat and Poultry -
Part Three Migrant Integration -
Chapter 6 Seasonal Worker Mobility -
Chapter 7 Migrants: The Integration Challenge -
Part Four Whither Rural America? -
Chapter 8 Labor Shortages, Mechanization, and Food Costs -
Chapter 9 Reforming U.S. Immigration Policies -
Chapter 10 Regularize and Rationalize Farm Labor - Epilogue: The Great Migration
-
Appendix 1 . Farm Employment, Immigration, and Poverty - Bibliography
- Index