In this book, the authors bring together historically relevant research and a cross section of contemporary work in changing technologies in U.S. agriculture. They analyze the compensation and adjustment programs for displaced labor and the relationship between technology and agribusiness growth.

"Gigi M. Berardi is assistant professor of environmental science at Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania. She is a contributor to several volumes, including Food and Energy Resources (Hall and Pimental, eds.; 1983) and The Tobacco Industry in Transition: Policies for the Eighties (Finger, ed.; 1981).
Charles C. Geisler is assistant professor of rural sociology at Cornell University and a research associate with COACT Research, Inc., in Madison, Wisconsin. He is coeditor of and contributor to Land Reform, American Style (Popper; 1984), Labor and the Environment: An Analysis of and Annotated Bibliography on Workplace and Environment Quality in the U. S. (Buttel and Wiswall; 1984), and Indian SIA: The Social Impact Assessment of Rapid Resource Development (Green, Usner, and West? 1982)."

Other Titles in This Series -- Foreword -- Introduction and Literature Overview -- A Time of Research Synthesis -- Socioeconomic Consequences of Agricultural Mechanization in the United States: Needed Redirections for Mechanization Research -- Historical Precedents and Insights -- The Influence of Farm Machinery on Production and Labor -- Technology on the Farm -- The Social Effects of Recent Trends in the Mechanization of Agriculture -- The Impact of Mechanization of Agriculture on the Farm Population of the South -- Social Aspects of Farm Mechanization in Oklahoma -- Agricultural Mechanization and Social Change in Rural Louisiana -- Recent Concerns with New Technologies in Agriculture -- Mechanized Agriculture and Social Welfare: The Case of the Tomato Harvester -- Assessment of the Economic and Social Impacts of Agricultural Technology: A Case Study -- From Lug Boxes to Electronics: A Study of California Tomato Growers and Sorting Crews, 1977 -- University Involvement in Social Impact Analysis of Changing Agricultural Technologies: Tobacco Harvest Mechanization in the Southeast -- Can Tobacco Farmers Adjust to Mechanization? A Look at Allotment Holders in Two North Carolina Counties -- A Programmatic Approach to the Social Impact Assessment of Agricultural Technology -- Sustained Land Productivity: Equity Consequences of Alternative Agricultural Technologies -- Agricultural Mechanization: Physical and Societal Effects and Implications for Policy Development -- Technological Change and the Growth of Agribusiness: A Case Study of California Lettuce Production -- Agribusiness in the United Kingdom: Social and Political Implications -- The Social Impacts of Biogenetic Technology in Agriculture: Past and Future -- Emerging Visions: A Roundtable of Sociological Opinion -- Panel Discussion Excerpts from the 1981 Annual Meeting of the Rural Sociological Society