[lbo-talk] Politics of food

[Alan Rudy]

Not only is Joseph right but a huge percentage of "family farms" in the US
that don't hire seasonal employees earn the majority of their income in
multigenerational pluriactive employment off the farm... across the
mid-west, the majority of small "family" units now hire a farm manager (who
also manages a number of other units) to determine what commodity to plant,
how to maximize production and who to hire, when, to do that...

On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 9:29 PM, Joseph Catron <jncatron at gmail.com> wrote:


> On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 9:13 PM, brad bauerly <bbauerly at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> By capitalist agriculture do you mean farmers who hire wage laborers or are
> > family farms capitalist?
> >
>
> My impression, from having been peripherally involved in a few campaigns
> around farm labor, is that very few "family farms" refrain from hiring
> seasonal employees, and that those falling into this category are so small
> they're hardly a factor in the industry as a whole.
>
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> lytlað."
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Alan P. Rudy
Dept. Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work
Central Michigan University
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