Download or read book Analysis of Agricultural Labor in the Pacific Northwest written by Auslam & Associates and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Use of Labor in Pacific Northwest Agricultural Production written by Donald Alan West and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pacific Northwest Economic Base Study for Power Markets Supporting studies pt 1 Population pt 2 Labor force pt 3 Employment pt 4 Personal income pt 5 Agriculture and food processing pt 6 Forest industries pt 7 Minerals pt 8 Fisheries pt 9 Recreation pt 10 Water pt 11 Fuels pt 12 Defense industries pt 13 Chemicals written by and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mexican Labor World War II written by Erasmo Gamboa and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the bracero program during World War II. It describes the labor history of Mexican and Chicano workers in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. It analyses the ways in which Braceros were active agents of their own lives. It also describes the living and working conditions in migrant farm camps.
Download or read book Farm Labor in the Pacific Northwest written by United States. Farm Security Administration. Region XI. and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Men and Resources written by Northwest Regional Council and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Development of Resources and of Economic Opportunity in the Pacific Northwest written by Pacific Northwest Regional Planning Commission and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Analysis of Agricultural Potential in the Pacific Northwest with Respect to Water and Energy written by B. W. Cone and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Production Function Analysis of Water Resource Productivity in Pacific Northwest Agriculture written by Milton Lee Holloway and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The competition or rivalry for the use of water resources among economic sectors of the Pacific Northwest and among geographical regions of the western United States has intensified in recent years. This rivalry and the long run prospects for water shortages have increased the demand for research concerning the productivity of this resource in alternative uses. This demand exists because the distribution and use of water resources require investment which typically comes from both public and private sources. Private and public planning groups seek answers to questions regarding future water resource development alternatives. Agriculture has historically been a major user of water in the Pacific Northwest. A substantial portion of total investment in water resource development has also been in agriculture. As a result water use planners and decision making bodies are necessarily interested in water use in agriculture. The success of water resource planning requires answers to questions regarding the value of the productivity of water in all its major uses, including various aspects of water use in agriculture. Different aspects of water use in agriculture which are important to decision makers include (1) the value productivity of various kinds or types of water resource investments, (2) the value productivity of water in various kinds of agricultural production in different geographical areas, and (3) the returns to private and public investment in agricultural water resources. This study was directed to providing answers to these questions. Pacific Northwest agriculture was studied from this viewpoint. Agricultural water resources were classified as irrigation, drainage, and water related Agricultural Conservation Program (ACP) practices. These are the major classifications of water resources in which investments are made in the Pacific Northwest. Production function analysis was selected as a method of investigation. Production functions were estimated for five areas or subregions in the Pacific Northwest. These areas are composed of counties with similar patterns of production. The Agricultural Census was the primary data source, supplemented by related. U.S. Department of Agriculture publications, and various state publications. Ordinary least-squares regression (OLS) techniques were employed to derive the initial estimates of the parameters of the production function models. Tests for detecting interdependence within the independent variable set of the models revealed a considerable degree of instability in the OLS parameter estimates. This condition makes the OLS solutions (and various derivations) particularly vulnerable to change from measurement error, poor model specification, and equation form. A prior information model was selected to explicitly include available prior knowledge in the estimation process. The model selected allows (1) tests of comparability of the two information sources (prior and sample), (2) over-all contribution of prior information to the new solution set, and (3) derivation of percentage contribution of the two information sources to individual parameter estimates. The results of the study indicate that no reliable estimates of value of production from drainage and ACP were possible from the sample information. Returns to irrigation were considered lower than expected in two of the farming areas and higher than expected in another. Estimated returns were high in the area which produces primarily field crops (about nine dollars per acre foot). The area has a small level of current irrigation development. Indications are that irrigation development is probably beyond the optimum level in the area where most large projects have been developed in the past (less than four dollars per acre foot). Future development would be most profitable (assuming equal development cost) in the dryland field crop area. Estimated returns to other factor inputs indicate (1) low returns to labor in two areas, (2) generally high returns to current operating expenditures, and (3) low returns to machinery capital. Returns to cropland were about as expected in two areas (five to seven percent) but low in two other areas (about two percent). Indications are that labor mobility should be increased in the area and that future land development should be in the livestock-field crop and the field crop areas rather than the coastal area or the west-central valley areas (primarily the Willamette Valley).
Download or read book An Analysis of Agricultural Potential in the Pacific Northwest with Repsect to Water and Energy written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Migrants written by and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Analysis of Agricultural Potential in the Pacific Northwest with Repsect to Water and Energy Appendices written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pineros written by Brinda Sarathy and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2012-01-07 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The exploitation of Latino workers in many industries, from agriculture and meat packing to textile manufacturing and janitorial services, is well known. By contrast, pineros -- itinerant workers who form the backbone of the forest management labour force on federal land -- toil largely in obscurity. Drawing on government papers, media accounts, and interviews with federal employees and Latino forest workers in Oregon’s Rogue Valley, Brinda Sarathy investigates how the federal government came to be one of the single largest employers of Latino labour in the Pacific Northwest. She documents pinero wages, working conditions, and benefits in comparison to those of white loggers and tree planters, exposing exploitation that, she argues, is the product of an ongoing history of institutionalized racism, fragmented policy, and intra-ethnic exploitation in the West. To overcome this legacy, Sarathy offers a number of proposals to improve the visibility and working conditions of pineros and to provide them with a stronger voice in immigration and forestry policy-making.
Download or read book Of Forests and Fields written by Mario Jimenez Sifuentez and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2016 Choice Oustanding Academic Title Just looking at the Pacific Northwest’s many verdant forests and fields, it may be hard to imagine the intense work it took to transform the region into the agricultural powerhouse it is today. Much of this labor was provided by Mexican guest workers, Tejano migrants, and undocumented immigrants, who converged on the region beginning in the mid-1940s. Of Forests and Fields tells the story of these workers, who toiled in the fields, canneries, packing sheds, and forests, turning the Pacific Northwest into one of the most productive agricultural regions in the country. Employing an innovative approach that traces the intersections between Chicana/o labor and environmental history, Mario Sifuentez shows how ethnic Mexican workers responded to white communities that only welcomed them when they were economically useful, then quickly shunned them. He vividly renders the feelings of isolation and desperation that led to the formation of ethnic Mexican labor organizations like the Pineros y Campesinos Unidos Noroeste (PCUN) farm workers union, which fought back against discrimination and exploitation. Of Forests and Fields not only extends the scope of Mexican labor history beyond the Southwest, it offers valuable historical precedents for understanding the struggles of immigrant and migrant laborers in our own era. Sifuentez supplements his extensive archival research with a unique set of first-hand interviews, offering new perspectives on events covered in the printed historical record. A descendent of ethnic Mexican immigrant laborers in Oregon, Sifuentez also poignantly demonstrates the links between the personal and political, as his research leads him to amazing discoveries about his own family history... www.mariosifuentez.com
Download or read book Wartime Farm Production Adjustments in the Pacific Northwest written by United States. Department of Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Agricultural Development as Related to Potential Power Markets in the Pacific Northwest During the Next 10 to 20 Years written by United States. Bureau of Agricultural Economics and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Agricultural Land Use Projections for the Pacific Northwest written by Philip Lloyd Jackson and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
