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Economic Considerations of Extending Unemployment Insurance to Agriculture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 July 2020

Raymond O. P. Farrish
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Economics, The University of Connecticut
Stanley K. Seaver
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Economics, The University of Connecticut
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Agriculture has been excluded, exempted or by-passed, depending upon one's viewpoint, from much of the social legislation extending back to the 1930's. For many years agriculture was essentially outside of workmen's compensation, minimum wage legislation, child labor laws and the social security system to identify a few. Legislation extending unemployment insurance protection to farm workers has never been enacted but we appear much closer to taking positive action to correct this situation.

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Agricultural Production and Land Use
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Copyright © Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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