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American Agriculture and the Prophecy of Increasing Misery

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  • Theodore P. Lianos
  • Quirino Paris

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A Marxian analysis of labor exploitation in American agriculture has indicated that the rate of exploitation has increased more than seven times from 1949 to 1968. Exploitation is defined in a relative sense as a declining of the income share of workers relative to that of capitalists. Labor is defined to include both hired and family workers. While exploitation of hired labor may appear as a familiar notion, the idea is advanced that family labor may have been exploited also.

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  • Theodore P. Lianos & Quirino Paris, 1972. "American Agriculture and the Prophecy of Increasing Misery," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, vol. 54(4_Part_1), pages 570-577.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:ajagec:v:54:y:1972:i:4_part_1:p:570-577.
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    1. Flinn, William L. & Buttel, Fredrick H., 1980. "Sociological Aspects Of Farm Size: Id Ogical And Social Consequences Of Scale In Agriculture," 1980 Annual Meeting, July 27-30, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois 278979, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association).
    2. Fred Krissman, 1995. "Farm labor contractors: The processors of new immigrant labor from Mexico for Californian agribusiness," Agriculture and Human Values, Springer;The Agriculture, Food, & Human Values Society (AFHVS), vol. 12(4), pages 18-46, September.
    3. Ryan E. Galt, 2013. "The Moral Economy Is a Double-edged Sword: Explaining Farmers’ Earnings and Self-exploitation in Community-Supported Agriculture," Economic Geography, Clark University, vol. 89(4), pages 341-365, October.
    4. Goss, Kevin F. & Rodefeld, Richard D. & Buttel, Frederick H., 1979. "The Political Economy of Class Structure in U.S. Agriculture: A Theoretical Outline," AE & RS Research Reports 257688, Pennsylvania State University, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology.
    5. Fox, Virginia A., 1976. "Economic Research Of Interest To Agriculture, 1973-1975," Economic Research of Interest to Agriculture 7277, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics.

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