Date of Award
8-1960
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts
Degree Discipline
Agriculture
Abstract
Migration is considered as a normal process of adjustment to changes in economic opportunities. As new areas develop and old ones become stationary or decline, people move in response to known or expected advantages in other areas, or simply as a means of escaping conditions at home but with no particular assurance of bettering their conditions.
The migrations of people from one area to another has been an almost constant phenomenon of human history. The dominant migratory trend during the relatively prosperous 1920s was the movement from farms to cities. Between 1930 and 1936, the trend changed somewhat as a great number of dislocated rural people sought resettlement on other agricultural lands. Then in the 1940s, a great shuffling and redistribution of population occurred largely toward the pacific coast. As the trend in migration changed and migration became more extended and prolonged, the American economy took on more complex problems. Although the entire economy felt the impact of migration, certain segments were affected more than others.
Committee Chair/Advisor
J.D. Holmes
Committee Member
J. L. Brown
Committee Member
J. L. Brown
Committee Member
S.W. Davis
Publisher
Prairie View Agricultural And Mechanical College
Rights
© 2021 Prairie View A & M University
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
Date of Digitization
10/04/2021
Contributing Institution
John B Coleman Library
City of Publication
Prairie View
MIME Type
Application/PDF
Recommended Citation
Stewart, J. E. (1960). An Economic Study Of the Impact Of Migratory Farm Labor On The Economy Of Texas. Retrieved from https://digitalcommons.pvamu.edu/pvamu-theses/499