The Prosperity Paradox: Fewer and More Vulnerable Farm Workers

by Philip Martin

Why do farm workers become more vulnerable as countries get richer? As countries get richer, the share of workers employed in agriculture falls. In richer countries, hired farm workers do ever more of the work on the fewer and larger farms that produce most farm commodities.

These hired workers are among the most vulnerable. They include local workers who lack the skills and contacts needed to get nonfarm jobs that usually offer higher wages...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198867840
• ISBN13: 9780198867845
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.6"