Post-Farmgate Employment in the US

David Swenson

Chapter 17 in Rural Policies and Employment:TransAtlantic Experiences, 2019, pp 271-284 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: Agricultural crops and animals are processed into foods, beverages, feeds, fuels, fibers, nutritional supplements and pharmaceuticals. Over time, as with all manufacturing sectors, there have been shifts in the prominence of different food processing subsectors, their labor needs, the locations of production facilities, technological reliance, and the structure of those industries in their relationships to suppliers (farms) and to buyers (ultimately, individual consumers). This chapter describes changes in the US food processing sectors over the past 50 years, focusing on three key dimensions: (1) trends and characteristics of the food sector’s overall labor demand and supply; (2) selected structural and organizational changes in industries processing agricultural goods; and (3) the roles of selected technological change in terms of labor demanded and kinds of food and kindred goods produced.

Keywords: Rural Areas; Rural Development; Agriculture; Employment; Labor; Jobs; Common Agricultural Policy; European Union; United States (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: P25 Q18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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