Labor Shortages

As the war progressed, farmers were asked to produce more food with less and less workers. More and more young people are elected to the military or are involved. Lack of agricultural labor, especially fruits and vegetable producers relying on physical labor of immigration is getting worse rapidly.

During the war, 15 million men and women were called by the military. At that time, the total number of employees was only 73 million people. More than 20% of prewar labor now is military, not civil work. The country needs a new way to end the work

These factories are away from work earlier than factories that offer opportunities for women and ethnic minorities. Defense factories hire and offer new salaries from many farms, high salaries

All of these forces have forced agriculture to be one of the largest employers in the prewar economy. Farmers, first of all, let their wives and children go to work.

Kelly Holthus (right) is one of the children wearing a tractor to solve the labor shortage when I am about 11 years old. I am very proud that he can contribute to the war.

Farmers and agricultural groups nationwide complained about the labor shortage and Congress answered by planning the expansion for farmers and agricultural workers "must always engage in agricultural occupation." However, the outflow of workers has begun.

Holy Miller brothers are one of the people who delayed the farm. "Neighbors have already fallen into drafts," Holly said. They are truly embarrassing. "

Later, the government even allowed to use prisoners of war (Germany) and Italy (prisoners of war) as agricultural laborers in the central and western areas.

But after all, only by improving the efficiency and productivity of individual farmers, we can deal with the serious shortage of agricultural labor. Therefore, even during wartime farm equipment manufacturers are refining their tractors and tools. This is the story of major innovation. In spite of the allocation of raw materials for agricultural machinery, farmers began to buy new technology.

After the war, most of the hired hands did not come back to the farm. However, at that time, few farmers thought about returning to an outdated, labor-intensive way. As the farmers increase revenue and buy machines, they do not need to rely on the employer because the government maintains pricing assistance to avoid the recession of post-war farms after the First World War.

Firstly, there are few reports on the lack of agricultural labor force. Many employers are talking about labor shortages in 2012, but key information providers in major agricultural areas reported labor shortage in 2014. High living expenses in Napasonoma area and Salinas Valley may be exception. Napa Vineyard, which does not provide housing, pays ten dollars per acre and helps 180 floors in three farm worker centers. There are nearly 800 wineries in Napa County and we produce 50 million wines annually. On August 24, 2014, several wines were destroyed by a magnitude 6.0 earthquake.

As many modern observers pointed out, the early 19th century American economy was characterized by labor shortage. The labor shortage is due to low cost of land and high revenue of agriculture. Demand for all types of workforce, especially unskilled labor and experienced factory workers is high. The labor price in the US is usually 30% to 50% higher than in the UK. Women's factory workers are particularly short. Due to the lack of transportation and low population density, the flexibility of labor is low. Relative labor shortage and high price are the driving force of capital investment, especially from the machine point of view.

My analysis focuses on two major industry trends and problems related to the postwar labor shortage. People think that the "shortage" of labor is the result of the sudden change in labor supply curve. The changing situation of the labor market is a direct driving force for the sugar factory to find labor-saving technologies for manufacturing external sugar cane raw materials and final products. The development of the transportation industry has also encouraged the use of a central factory, a technology that will benefit large companies. The tendency to produce white and clear sugar instead of brown is an extension of the pre-war trend, eventually boiling almost all Louisiana sugar in a vacuum. Accelerate trends before the war when labor shortage increased the relative profitability of previously invented equipment