Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 147 Document Number: C23361
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College class resource. 13 pages., In section on labor skills the author notes how the new Nike assembly worker (trained in two hours) transferred from the rural sector loses mastery of "a great many skills such as a knowledge of the land, fertilizer, animals, tools, farm machinery, construction skills, etc."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C14397
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Chapter 10 in Gordon Prain, Sam Fujisaka and Michael D. Warren (eds.), Biological and cultural diversity: the role of indigenous agricultural experimentation in development. Intermediate Technology Publications, London. 1999. 218 pages
Uganda: Association for International Agricultural and Extension Education
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 138 Document Number: C20983
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Burton Swanson Collection, 8 pages, Session I, from "1999 conference proceedings -- Association for International Agricultural and Extension Education", 15th Annual Conference, 21-24 March 1999, Port of Spain, Trinidad, 25-26, Tobago
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C18293
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Pages 147-158 in Barry Glassner and Rosanna Hertz (eds.), Qualitative sociology as everyday life. Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, California. 280 pages., Example of a "dramaturgical or performative sociology" - human interactions in a small town in rural Montana.
Reports on author's findings that "contract farming does not have the effect of deskilling predicted based on the factory assembly line, because the environmental specificity of agriculture requires more independent decision making than does factory work."
