Wage labor as a primary plantation indicator - the case of American cotton farms

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English

Bibliographic Citation

The California Geographer 8: 89-102

Notes

For plantation farming the most fundamental criterion is size, although there is much argument over what specific size minimum or minima should be accepted. Nor is there any uniform feeling on how the size qualification should be expressed. If a flat size delimitation is rejected as too arbitrary, then there is the bigger problem of selecting an indicator that ensures a farming operation large enough to guarantee a sizable acreage. The researcher who is interested in the plantation type of farm in the United States soon discovers that the few studies made of large farms deal principally with the scale of operations, something that is by no means always commensurate with large size, particularly when expressed monetarily, as in value of products sold. Some of these studies do consider size specifically, but only as one criterion among several other equally-weighted criteria, not all of which need be included in order to have a small-sized farm classified as "large.

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Wage labor as a primary plantation indicator - the case of American cotton farms