 Unemployment and Partial Employment of Hired Farm Workers in Four Areas (A Summary Report)United States Department of Agriculture Bureau of Agricultural Economics and United States Department of Labor Bureau of Employment Security No 415928, Miscellaneous Publications from United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service Abstract: Since the middle of 1950, as defense preparations have gone forward in the United States, agriculture has been called upon for progressively higher levels of production. Meanwhile, one of the essential instruments of farm production, the farm labor force, has continued to decline. The result has been a widening public interest in farm manpower problems and an intensification of efforts to achieve better utilization of the services of the remaining force of workers. The main purpose of this study, then, was to determine how widespread seasonal unemployment is among the group of people who normally supplement the farm labor force, at what seasons of the year it occurs, what these people do when not actually employed in agriculture, their willingness to migrate to fill in their employment with work elsewhere, and related data. It is intended that the results of the study may be translated into specific plans for better utilization of domestic labor resources. Keywords: Crop Production/Industries; Labor and Human Capital (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ags:uersmp:415928 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Miscellaneous Publications from United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service Contact information at EDIRC. |
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