Linda Wilcox Young
Biographic Data
| ID | 180886 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Linda Wilcox Young |
| GIVEN NAMES | Linda Wilcox |
| FAMILY NAME | Young |
| SIGNATURE | YOUNG L W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Vermont |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Free Trade or Fair Trade: Nafta and Agricultural Labor
Labour demand and Agroindustrial development: The evidence from Mexico
Agroindustrialisation, in contrast to assertions by Mexican policy‐makers, has had a negative employment‐generating effect in agriculture in the region known as El Bajío. The impact of widespread crop substitution and the wholesale transfer of technology promoted by transnational processing plants have both reduced the total labour employed and increased the instability of employment through heightened seasonality of labour demand. A decompositio…
Land and labour in Latin American agriculture from the 1950s to the 1980s
A considerable amount of statistical information on the evolution of the Latin American peasantry during the last 35 years is used to show that it has become a large refuge sector that symptomises the developmental failures of the rest of the economy. While economic growth has been rapid until the debt crisis of the early 1980s, neither access to land nor employment creation has been sufficient to reduce rural poverty. As a result, the bulk of th…
Land and labour in Latin American agriculture from the 1950s to the 1980s
A considerable amount of statistical information on the evolution of the Latin American peasantry during the last 35 years is used to show that it has become a large refuge sector that symptomises the developmental failures of the rest of the economy. While economic growth has been rapid until the debt crisis of the early 1980s, neither access to land nor employment creation has been sufficient to reduce rural poverty. As a result, the bulk of th…
Free Trade or Fair Trade: Nafta and Agricultural Labor
Land and labour in Latin American agriculture from the 1950s to the 1980s
A considerable amount of statistical information on the evolution of the Latin American peasantry during the last 35 years is used to show that it has become a large refuge sector that symptomises the developmental failures of the rest of the economy. While economic growth has been rapid until the debt crisis of the early 1980s, neither access to land nor employment creation has been sufficient to reduce rural poverty. As a result, the bulk of th…
Labour demand and Agroindustrial development: The evidence from Mexico
Agroindustrialisation, in contrast to assertions by Mexican policy‐makers, has had a negative employment‐generating effect in agriculture in the region known as El Bajío. The impact of widespread crop substitution and the wholesale transfer of technology promoted by transnational processing plants have both reduced the total labour employed and increased the instability of employment through heightened seasonality of labour demand. A decompositio…
Free Trade or Fair Trade: Nafta and Agricultural Labor
Economics (3 works) · Agriculture (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact (2 works) · Agricultural economics (1 works) · Agricultural risk and resilience (1 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (1 works) · Debt (1 works) · Development economics (1 works) · Economic growth (1 works)