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The Political Economy of Mechanization in U.S. Agriculture (Hardcover)
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The Political Economy of Mechanization in U.S. Agriculture (Hardcover)
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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.
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