Farm Family Decision Making Project oral histories and records, 1966-1982.
Collection Number: 13-6-1230
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Farm Family Decision Making Project oral histories and records, 1966-1982.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
13-6-1230
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.
Creator:
Farm Family Decision Making Project
Quanitities:
11.4 cubic feet.
1 mapcase folders.
19 items.
Language:
Collection material in English
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.
Access restricted in part. See transcripts for individual restrictions.
Tapes and transcripts have individual restrictions that can be found within the typed
transcript.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Farm Family Decision Making Project oral histories and records, #13-6-1230. Division
of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
Names:
United States. Department of Agriculture
Subjects:
Rural-urban cultural relationships.
Rewards used in farming.
Reserve labor.
Recreation -- Meaning.
Individual and family attitudes.
Evaluation and farm operation.
Chores -- Meaning.
4-H clubs.
Work measurement.
Work and family.
Work.
Women in agriculture.
Tillage.
Success.
Soils.
Soil conservation.
Silage machinery.
Sex role.
Self-evaluation.
Saving and investment.
Rural families.
Rural women.
Quality of work life.
Part-time farming.
Non-formal education.
Milking machines.
Mate selection.
Landlord and tenant.
Land use, Rural.
Job satisfaction.
Interpersonal conflict.
Intergenerational relations.
Inheritance tax.
Home economics extension work.
Hill farming.
Father-son operating agreements.
Farms, Size of.
Farms -- Taxation.
Agriculture -- Accounting.
Farmhouses.
Farmers\' spouses.
Farmers -- Supplementary employment.
Farmers -- Nutrition.
Farmers -- Family relationships.
Farmers.
Farm supplies.
Farm risk.
Farm partnership.
Farm management -- Records and correspondence.
Farm management -- Decision making.
Farm management.
Farm life.
Farm income.
Farm equipment.
Farm corporations.
Farm buildings.
Family recreation.
Family farms.
Family corporations.
Families -- Longitudinal studies.
Employees, Training of.
Employee selection.
Drainage.
Domestic relations.
Decision making.
Dairying.
Culture conflict.
Crop rotation.
Conflict of generations.
Communication in agriculture.
Apprentices.
Agriculture -- New York (State)
Agriculture -- Iowa.
Agriculture -- Taxation -- Law and legislation.
Agriculture -- Social aspects.
Agriculture -- Labor productivity.
Agriculture -- Information services.
Agriculture -- Finance.
Agriculture -- Documentation.
Agriculture -- Costs.
Agriculture -- Accidents.
Agricultural resources.
Agricultural machinery -- Maintenance and repair.
Agricultural laws and legislation.
Agricultural laborers.
Agricultural extension work.
Agricultural education.
Agricultural credit.
Agricultural conservation.
Agricultural colleges.
Form and Genre Terms:
Oral histories.
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