Agricultural Labor in the United States, 1915-1935: A Selected List of References

Excerpts from the Foreword: References to material relating to the farm labor situation in general have been included as have those relating to agricultural labor management, agricultural labor unions, the displacement of agricultural labor by machinery and other forces, legislation dealing with the farm laborer, the "agricultural ladder" of which farm labor is the lowest rung, and the supply of and the demand for this type of labor and its history. Material dealing with the training of the agricultural laborer, his mobility, hours of work, wages and perquisites, including board and housing, overtime pay and profit sharing, his cost and standard of living, insurance as it applies to him as well as workmen's compensation may be found here. References relating to material dealing with the hired man himself, his characteristics, his viewpoint, his efficiency, his migration from the farm to the city, the occupational hazards which he encounters, unemployment in his trade and the employment capacity of agriculture are included. Much has been written of the migratory agricultural laborer and much of the immigrant laborer - Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, and Mexican. Sections of the bibliography are devoted to these two classes of laborers, while another section deals with the sharecropper of the Southern and Southwestern States. Child labor has a large amount of material devoted to it, while a smaller section deals with women as agricultural workers. References to material relating to strikes and labor unrest among agricultural workers, so prevalent during the past few years, have been included.