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

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.
Access Restrictions:

Access restricted in part. See transcripts for individual restrictions.
Restrictions on Use:

Tapes and transcripts have individual restrictions that can be found within the typed transcript.

INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:

Farm Family Decision Making Project oral histories and records, #13-6-1230. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

SUBJECTS

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.

CONTAINER LIST
Container
Description
Date
A list of the tapes can be found here, starting on page 66: http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/pdf_guides/Tape_Recording_Inventory.pdf
Box 23 - trans. 1750
Box 23 - Trans. 1750
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Box 23 - trans. 1751
Box 23 - Trans. 1751
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Box 23 - trans. 1752 (part 1)
Box 23 - Trans. 1752 (part 1)
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Box 23 - trans. 1752 (part 2)
Box 23 - Trans. 1752 (part 2)
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Box 23 - trans. 1752 (part 3)
Box 23 - Trans. 1752 (part 3)
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Box 23 - trans. 1753
Box 23 - Trans. 1753
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Box 23 - trans. 1754
Box 23 - Trans. 1754
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Box 23 - trans. 1755
Box 23 - Trans. 1755
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Box 23 - trans. 1756
Box 23 - Trans. 1756
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Box 23 - trans. 1757 (part 1)
Box 23 - Trans. 1757 (part 1)
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Box 23 - trans. 1757 (part 2)
Box 23 - Trans. 1757 (part 2)
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