As You Sow: Three Studies in the Social Consequences of Agribusiness

acreage acres Agricultural Adjustment Agency agricultural laborers American Arvin and Dinuba Arvin Dinuba association attitudes average Bakersfield basis behavior Bureau California Census Central Valley Project church civic club congregation corporations cost cotton crops cultural differences Dinuba Arvin district effect elite employment enterprises established fact factors family heads farm labor farm operators farm workers farmers fruit growers houses important included income indicated individual industrialized agriculture industrialized farming interests irrigation Kern County labor requirements land large-scale less level of living major membership merchants Mexican migrants munity Negro nomic nuclear group Number Percent occupation groups organization outsider group pattern Pentecostal persons population potatoes production proportion recreation reported residents San Joaquin Valley Schedule data season SENATOR LA FOLLETTE shows small farms social classes society SOURCE TABLE tion town Tulare County units urban wages Wasco white-collar workers