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The Social Consequences And Challenges Of New Agricultural Technologies (Hardcover)
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The Social Consequences And Challenges Of New Agricultural Technologies (Hardcover)
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Although formal social impact assessment of changing technologies
in U.S. agriculture is still in its infancy, scholars have been
documenting the effects of new technology throughout the twentieth
century. In this collection, Prcfessors Berardi and Geisler bring
together historically relevant research and a carefully chosen
cross section of contemporary work. Their review of the literature
is followed by an evaluation of the effects of mechanization on
labor and production, written in 1904, which provides a backdrop
for papers from the 1940s and 1950s examining the mechanization of
agriculture in the South, in the Midwest, and in rural areas in
general. Subsequent chapters offer present-day insights on such
topics as the socioeconomic consequences of automated vegetable and
tobacco harvesting, center-pivot irrigation, and organic and
no-till cultivation. The authors also look at compensation and
adjustment programs for displaced labor, the relationship between
technology and agribusiness growth, and the effectiveness of
university programs that prepare students to perform social impact
assessments in agriculture. The edited proceedings of a spirited
roundtable discussion on new directions for the study of the social
impacts of farm technology and the political economy of agriculture
provide the thought-provoking conclusion to this overview of the
field.
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