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Keyword: lettuce


Machines vs Brawn (2/27/2007)

Mechanization may not be able to totally eliminate low-wage and low-skilled jobs that illegal immigrants are eager to fill.

Keywords: automation, chicken processing, harvest, illegal immigrant, immigration, labor productivity, lettuce, low-skilled, machines, mechanization, poultry processing, tomato, wages

The Seduction of Cheap Labor (8/31/2005)

Cheap immigrant labor has kept labor-intensive lettuce farming in America that should perhaps have been offshored or mechanized.

Keywords: cheap labor, immigrant workers, immigrants, labor market, lettuce, offshoring, opportunity costs, wage