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Social Conflict, Commodity Constraints, and Labor Market Structure in Agriculture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

Miriam J. Wells
Miriam J. Wells
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University of California, Davis
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Although only a minority of harvest workers in California are covered by union contracts, jobs in some nonunionized industries are becoming increasingly stabilized and internally stratified in ways and to extents that are largely unnoted. These conditions result from an augmentation of the labor market structure (Fisher 1953), that is, from policies evolving within agricultural industries that partially insulate their job markets from external market forces.

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Managing the Labor Market
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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 23 , Issue 4 , October 1981 , pp. 679 - 704
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Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1981

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