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University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Farm Family Decision
Making Project oral histories and records,
1966-1982.
Collection Number:
13-6-1230
Creator:
Farm Family Decision Making
Project.
Quantity:
327 tape
recordings.594 transcripts (21,362 pp.)
Forms of Material:
Audio Recordings, Printed
Materials
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript
Collections, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Biannual conversations with adults and
children eight and older, individually and in family groups, in a panel of
thirty-three New York and Iowa farm families concerning how the occupation of
farming is organized and conducted.
Language:
Collection material in
English
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Biannual conversations with adults and children eight and older,
individually and in family groups, in a panel of thirty-three New York and Iowa
farm families concerning how the occupation of farming is organized and
conducted. Topics include activities of family members and employees, daily and
weekly, by season; aspirations, expectations, and responsibilities attributed
to the self, other family members, and employees; obtaining and evaluating
information; extent of involvement in decisions attributed to self, other
family members, and employees; conflict between generations in the family and
its resolution; reproducing the stem family; establishing and maintaining
boundaries between in-laws and stem family, between family and outsiders, and
between rural and urban culture; conflict between rural and urban culture;
connections and barriers between production and family within occupation; means
for evaluation in production and family sectors; mate selection; determining
priorities; meaning of work, labor, tasks, chores, and recreation; task
differentiation by gender; using and compensating hired and family labor;
reserve labor; programs and forms of emotional and financial support; capital
formation; credit; sources of income; marketing farm commodities; land use and
conservation; record keeping; adoption and use of production and household
technology; apprenticeship education; and values attached to consumption.
Other topics discussed are the form, timing, and quantity of rewards
to family members and employees; distinction between ownership and control of
farm resources; religious participation; farm maintenance; soil conservation;
formal and informal training; dairy farming; poultry farming; apple production;
4-H clubs; farm organizations; U.S. agricultural colleges; the United States
Department of Agriculture; Cooperative Extension; and related topics.
Also includes "The Game," with playing board, markers, cards, money,
and rules, used in facilitating interviews, January, 1971; and files of Gould
P. Colman including drafts of case studies, memos to project leaders, memos to
farm family participants, planning exercises, checklists, and other papers,
1974-1982.
SUBJECTS
Names:
Farm Family Decision Making
Project.
United States.Dept. of
Agriculture.
Subjects:
Agricultural colleges.
Agricultural conservation.
Agricultural credit.
Agricultural education.
Agricultural extension
work.
Agricultural laborers.
Agricultural laws and
legislation.
Agricultural machinery--Maintenance
and repair.
Agricultural resources.
Agriculture--Accidents.
Agriculture--Costs.
Agriculture--Documentation.
Agriculture--Finance.
Agriculture--Information
services.
Agriculture--Labor
productivity.
Agriculture--Social
aspects.
Agriculture--Taxation--Law and
legislation.
Agriculture--Iowa.
Agriculture--New York
(State)
Apprentices.
Communication in
agriculture.
Conflict of generations.
Crop rotation.
Culture conflict.
Dairying.
Decision making.
Domestic relations.
Drainage.
Employee selection.
Employees, Training of.
Families--Longitudinal
studies.
Family corporations.
Family farms.
Family recreation.
Farm buildings.
Farm corporations.
Farm equipment.
Farm income.
Farm life.
Farm management.
Farm management--Decision
making.
Farm management--Records and
correspondence.
Farm partnership.
Farm risk.
Farm supplies.
Farmers.
Farmers--Family
relationships.
Farmers--Nutrition.
Farmers--Supplementary
employment.
Farmers' spouses.
Farmhouses.
Farms--Accounting.
Farms--Taxation.
Farms, Size of.
Father-son operating
agreements.
Hill farming.
Home economics extension
work.
Inheritance tax.
Intergenerational
relations.
Interpersonal conflict.
Job satisfaction.
Land use, Rural.
Landlord and tenant.
Mate selection.
Milking machines.
Non-formal education.
Part-time farming.
Quality of work life.
Rural women.
Rural families.
Saving and investment.
Self-evaluation.
Sex role.
Silage machinery.
Soil conservation.
Soils.
Success.
Tillage.
Women in agriculture.
Work.
Work and family.
Work measurement.
4-H clubs.
Form and Genre Terms:
Oral
histories.