Civic Agriculture by Lyson Thomas A

Author:Lyson, Thomas A. [Thomas A. Lyson]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781611683035
Publisher: Tufts University Press

Based on these observations, Goldschmidt concluded the following: “The scale of operations that developed in Arvin inevitably had one clear and direct effect on the community: It skewed the occupation structure so that the majority of the population could only subsist by working as wage labor for others… . The occupation structure of the community, with a great majority of wage workers … has had a series of direct effects upon social conditions in the community.”15 In other words, differences in social and economic welfare between the large-farm and the small-farm communities were directly the result of worker exploitation.

Unlike Mills and Ulmer, Goldschmidt did not integrate the civically engaged independent middle class into his explanatory framework. However, he did acknowledge the presence of this group in his study. For example, he noted that “the small farm community is a population of middle class persons with a high degree of stability in income and tenure, and a strong economic and social interest in their community.”16 Elsewhere, Goldschmidt articulated the relationship between civic engagement and the independent middle class. According to Goldschmidt, “civic leadership in Dinuba … rests largely with a small group of merchants, teachers, and other professional persons.”17 And he went on to elaborate the rich organizational and associational life in the small farm community.

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