Wage inequality in the agriculture industry ?

Question

I am in desperate need of help in finding articles on wage inequality that relates to the industry of agriculture ?? Can anyone direct me to any info for this ? How would there be wage inequality in the agriculture industry ? any ideas on that ?? thanks

Answer 1

during drought i would think that there would be a fair bit of wage inequality as properties struggle and need to pay more for feed and to get water delivered by tanks, it would leave less money to pay for station hands etc.

these links may help you as well

ehsanz.econ.usyd.edu.au/papers/Camps.p...

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstra...

hope this helps

Answer 2

First thing to keep in mind is that at least here in the US, agriculture is a lower wage with no overtime by law. Look at any work place bulletin board (you will find one at every school as they hire people and post it by law). One other very important fact to keep in mind is that in the US here, agriculture is exempt from almost all other laws that govern all other industries, and allows agricultural businesses to compete and keep price down. Case in point, my employer was complaining that he had a boiler for most of 15 years and all of a sudden the state was coming down on him for not having a valid pre inspection and following annuals. Because I had to study material for a Fireman's class 2 license (boiler operator) I knew that agriculture was exempt. He did not need any inspection nor did he need a Fireman licensed operator. He had a fun time telling the inspectors just how far that paperwork should go. Seems they had no clue either. These kinds of exemptions are in many places in many industries with regard to agriculture. "Whistle blowers" laws are not covered. Electrical, plumbing and construction permits are not needed in many places. Pesticide regulations are different, much more lax than with the home exterminator as an example. The list is quite long and as far reaching as these examples. Anyone else out there know of other examples to pass on?

Answer 3

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?a...

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob...

http://ideas.repec.org/p/bri/uobdis/02-5...

Answer 4

If you are talking about wage equality between the sexes then in-equality is normal around the world. The farmers claim that women are not strong enough to do most of the things men do, so should not be paid as much. This is despite the fact that many jobs women do are more valuable on the farm, and can even bring in more money, but because they are physically easier to perform they attract less pay.

For more information try Workers Union websites.

Answer 5

That $1 loaf of bread does not have 20 cents of wheat in it, and that $7 loaf of bakers bread does not have 25 cents worth of grain in it. It is not the farmer who makes it cost so much; he can barely buy the seed.

Grains are far more central to our economy and the politics of the nation than oil is and grain - will still be the currency of  oil when both the dollar and the Euro cease to be.

Rethink what inequality can be. Farmer / merchant.  Nation / Merchant, Nation / farmer.  

The inequality is between  the merchants of grain - the seven families who control the entire planet's grain trade (Andre - Andre family, Bunge - Hirsch and Born families, Cargill - Cargill and McMillan families,  Continental - Fribourg family, and Louis-Dreyfus -  the Louis-Dreyfus family),  the farmer, and  the people of Earth.

Dan Morgan's book,  "Merchants of Grain" is the first outside history of the grain trade.

Harry Fornari's  "Bread Upon the Waters"is a book by the VP at Bunge.

Go to worldcat.org and search  -merchants of grain- and you willl have enough topics and resources for your paper to do a detailed over-view,  or a paper with  indepth detail on one topic.