He says when labor is tight, wages rise and that pushes farmers to invest in mechanization.
In the past decade or so, a lot of Americans have lost jobs to either mechanization or outsourcing.
Mr. Bryan, the California berry grower, says mechanization doesn't work for picking berries, which ripen at different rates.
In his view this was the Golden Age of cowboy boots before mechanization and mass production became the norm.
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In 1779, Samuel Crompton, a retiring genius from Lancashire, invented the spinning mule, which made possible the mechanization of cotton manufacture.
However, farm jobs in the US are much less than they would be in Brazil due mostly to technical advances and mechanization.
American farmers, fretting over a shortage of workers as immigrant labor becomes harder to find, are being pushed to give mechanization greater consideration.
Ox-drawn ploughs still power farming in much of the country, meaning agricultural output of rice, beans and other staples could grow immensely through mechanization.
Heavily investing in the mechanization and modernization of the agricultural sector.
Reading that makes me think of what it must have been like when cars became ubiquitous and lovers of horse-drawn carriages lamented this new mechanization of traveling.
Meanwhile, even the mines in Hpakant in Myanmar have seen more mechanization in recent years, with earth-moving machines replacing many human workers, though the site overall remains unruly.
Hubbard left his distinctive mark on a workshop of handmade goods called the Roycrofters, a throwback to medieval guilds and reaction against the mechanization of the industrial age.
Economic historians sometimes say, mechanization released humanity from population constraints.
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Many farmers say that to cope with the labor shortage last season, they offered higher wages, delayed pruning and harvesting, used mechanization if possible, or failed to harvest some of their crop.
As well as recommending improved infrastructure and the creation of new enterprises in areas such as farm mechanization and food storage, the study also suggests the recognition of agriculture as a knowledge industry.
The Bauhaus with which I am more familiar is about embracing humanistic traits, and exercising them on a human scale so as to capture the 'spirit' that was being lost in the mechanization of processes.
And while there was a strong abolitionist movement in England, it was the Industrial Revolution, and its mechanization that did away with the need for vast amounts of cheap labor in the colonies, that eventually turned England against the slave trade.
WSJ: Human Transactions | Spirits of the Passage | Frazier History Museum | By Mark Yost
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