Jersey Homesteads, New Jersey

Farm Security Administration

No 414509, USDA Miscellaneous from United States Department of Agriculture

Abstract: Development of Jersey Homesteads was approved by the Division of Subsistence Homesteads (Department of Interior) on December 2, 1933. The statement of the objectives of the community was as follows: to demonstrate the feasibility of decentralizing an industry which for years has been concentrated in congested areas of large cities, amidst slum living conditions and sweat shop working conditions; to demonstrate the merits of combining farming with work in a predominantly seasonal industry and one which is subject to the dictates of fashion; to conduct an experiment in cooperative working and living.

Keywords: Community/Rural/Urban Development; Labor and Human Capital; Land Economics/Use (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 12
Date: 1940-03
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.414509

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