Health Problems in Industrialized Agriculture

Social Security for "Industrialized" Agriculture

T H E ADOPTION of a broad definition of "agricultural labor" in the amendments to the Social Security Act in 1 9 3 9 deprived some 4 5 0 , 0 0 0 to 6 0 0 , 0 0 0 persons of the old-age insurance protection they had enjoyed under the original act of 1 9 3 5 . I n addition, 100 ,000 to 2 5 0 , 0 0 0 workers whose s tatus under t h a t program had previously been in doubt were definitely excluded....

Stray Voltage Problems in Agriculture

Agricultural Soils in Europe – Special Demands Related to Intensive Agriculture in an Industrialized Environment

The Sustainability of Agriculture in a Northern Industrialized Country—From Controlling Nature to Rural Development

The concept of sustainability has been a part of theory and practice in agriculture for a long time, but the diverse roots of the concept have led to a number of different definitions of sustainable agriculture. This paper provides an overview of the policy development of sustainable agriculture in Finland by examining internal and external discourses of sustainability and the evolution in diff...

Health care expenditures in nine industrialized countries, 1960-76.

This article reports the findings of a study developed to compare health care costs in the United States with those of eight other industrially advanced countries over the period 1960-76. All of the countries studied were found to share with the United States the problem of increased health care spending that has outpaced inflation in other sectors of the economy and continues to consume a grow...