"Gigi M. Berardi is assistant professor of environmental science at Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania. She is a contributor to several volumes, including Food and Energy Resources (Hall and Pimental, eds.; 1983) and The Tobacco Industry in Transition: Policies for the Eighties (Finger, ed.; 1981). Charles C. Geisler is assistant professor of rural sociology at Cornell University and a research associate with COACT Research, Inc., in Madison, Wisconsin. He is coeditor of and contributor to Land Reform, American Style (Popper; 1984), Labor and the Environment: An Analysis of and Annotated Bibliography on Workplace and Environment Quality in the U. S. (Buttel and Wiswall; 1984), and Indian SIA: The Social Impact Assessment of Rapid Resource Development (Green, Usner, and West? 1982)."

• Other Titles in This Series -- Foreword -- Introduction and Literature Overview -- A Time of Research Synthesis -- Socioeconomic Consequences of Agricultural Mechanization in the United States: Needed Redirections for Mechanization Research -- Historical Precedents and Insights -- The Influence of Farm Machinery on Production and Labor -- Technology on the Farm -- The Social Effects of Recent Trends in the Mechanization of Agriculture -- The Impact of Mechanization of Agriculture on the Farm Population of the South -- Social Aspects of Farm Mechanization in Oklahoma -- Agricultural Mechanization and Social Change in Rural Louisiana -- Recent Concerns with New Technologies in Agriculture -- Mechanized Agriculture and Social Welfare: The Case of the Tomato Harvester -- Assessment of the Economic and Social Impacts of Agricultural Technology: A Case Study -- From Lug Boxes to Electronics: A Study of California Tomato Growers and Sorting Crews, 1977 -- University Involvement in Social Impact Analysis of Changing Agricultural Technologies: Tobacco Harvest Mechanization in the Southeast -- Can Tobacco Farmers Adjust to Mechanization? A Look at Allotment Holders in Two North Carolina Counties -- A Programmatic Approach to the Social Impact Assessment of Agricultural Technology -- Sustained Land Productivity: Equity Consequences of Alternative Agricultural Technologies -- Agricultural Mechanization: Physical and Societal Effects and Implications for Policy Development -- Technological Change and the Growth of Agribusiness: A Case Study of California Lettuce Production -- Agribusiness in the United Kingdom: Social and Political Implications -- The Social Impacts of Biogenetic Technology in Agriculture: Past and Future -- Emerging Visions: A Roundtable of Sociological Opinion -- Panel Discussion Excerpts from the 1981 Annual Meeting of the Rural Sociological Society

"Gigi M. Berardi is assistant professor of environmental science at Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania. She is a contributor to several volumes, including Food and Energy Resources (Hall and Pimental, eds.; 1983) and The Tobacco Industry in Transition: Policies for the Eighties (Finger, ed.; 1981). Charles C. Geisler is assistant professor of rural sociology at Cornell University and a research associate with COACT Research, Inc., in Madison, Wisconsin. He is coeditor of and contributor to Land Reform, American Style (Popper; 1984), Labor and the Environment: An Analysis of and Annotated Bibliography on Workplace and Environment Quality in the U. S. (Buttel and Wiswall; 1984), and Indian SIA: The Social Impact Assessment of Rapid Resource Development (Green, Usner, and West? 1982)."

• Other Titles in This Series -- Foreword -- Introduction and Literature Overview -- A Time of Research Synthesis -- Socioeconomic Consequences of Agricultural Mechanization in the United States: Needed Redirections for Mechanization Research -- Historical Precedents and Insights -- The Influence of Farm Machinery on Production and Labor -- Technology on the Farm -- The Social Effects of Recent Trends in the Mechanization of Agriculture -- The Impact of Mechanization of Agriculture on the Farm Population of the South -- Social Aspects of Farm Mechanization in Oklahoma -- Agricultural Mechanization and Social Change in Rural Louisiana -- Recent Concerns with New Technologies in Agriculture -- Mechanized Agriculture and Social Welfare: The Case of the Tomato Harvester -- Assessment of the Economic and Social Impacts of Agricultural Technology: A Case Study -- From Lug Boxes to Electronics: A Study of California Tomato Growers and Sorting Crews, 1977 -- University Involvement in Social Impact Analysis of Changing Agricultural Technologies: Tobacco Harvest Mechanization in the Southeast -- Can Tobacco Farmers Adjust to Mechanization? A Look at Allotment Holders in Two North Carolina Counties -- A Programmatic Approach to the Social Impact Assessment of Agricultural Technology -- Sustained Land Productivity: Equity Consequences of Alternative Agricultural Technologies -- Agricultural Mechanization: Physical and Societal Effects and Implications for Policy Development -- Technological Change and the Growth of Agribusiness: A Case Study of California Lettuce Production -- Agribusiness in the United Kingdom: Social and Political Implications -- The Social Impacts of Biogenetic Technology in Agriculture: Past and Future -- Emerging Visions: A Roundtable of Sociological Opinion -- Panel Discussion Excerpts from the 1981 Annual Meeting of the Rural Sociological Society

"Gigi M. Berardi is assistant professor of environmental science at Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania. She is a contributor to several volumes, including Food and Energy Resources (Hall and Pimental, eds.; 1983) and The Tobacco Industry in Transition: Policies for the Eighties (Finger, ed.; 1981). Charles C. Geisler is assistant professor of rural sociology at Cornell University and a research associate with COACT Research, Inc., in Madison, Wisconsin. He is coeditor of and contributor to Land Reform, American Style (Popper; 1984), Labor and the Environment: An Analysis of and Annotated Bibliography on Workplace and Environment Quality in the U. S. (Buttel and Wiswall; 1984), and Indian SIA: The Social Impact Assessment of Rapid Resource Development (Green, Usner, and West? 1982)."

• Other Titles in This Series -- Foreword -- Introduction and Literature Overview -- A Time of Research Synthesis -- Socioeconomic Consequences of Agricultural Mechanization in the United States: Needed Redirections for Mechanization Research -- Historical Precedents and Insights -- The Influence of Farm Machinery on Production and Labor -- Technology on the Farm -- The Social Effects of Recent Trends in the Mechanization of Agriculture -- The Impact of Mechanization of Agriculture on the Farm Population of the South -- Social Aspects of Farm Mechanization in Oklahoma -- Agricultural Mechanization and Social Change in Rural Louisiana -- Recent Concerns with New Technologies in Agriculture -- Mechanized Agriculture and Social Welfare: The Case of the Tomato Harvester -- Assessment of the Economic and Social Impacts of Agricultural Technology: A Case Study -- From Lug Boxes to Electronics: A Study of California Tomato Growers and Sorting Crews, 1977 -- University Involvement in Social Impact Analysis of Changing Agricultural Technologies: Tobacco Harvest Mechanization in the Southeast -- Can Tobacco Farmers Adjust to Mechanization? A Look at Allotment Holders in Two North Carolina Counties -- A Programmatic Approach to the Social Impact Assessment of Agricultural Technology -- Sustained Land Productivity: Equity Consequences of Alternative Agricultural Technologies -- Agricultural Mechanization: Physical and Societal Effects and Implications for Policy Development -- Technological Change and the Growth of Agribusiness: A Case Study of California Lettuce Production -- Agribusiness in the United Kingdom: Social and Political Implications -- The Social Impacts of Biogenetic Technology in Agriculture: Past and Future -- Emerging Visions: A Roundtable of Sociological Opinion -- Panel Discussion Excerpts from the 1981 Annual Meeting of the Rural Sociological Society