"Machinery Has Completely Taken over": The Diffusion of the Mechanical Cotton Picker, 1949-1964
Hand picking of cotton in the United States virtually disappeared twenty years after the first mechanical harvester was marketed in 1949. Contrary to received accounts, southern social institutions did not impede the diffusion of the mechanical cotton picker from the West to the cotton belt in the S...
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| description | Hand picking of cotton in the United States virtually disappeared twenty years after the first mechanical harvester was marketed in 1949. Contrary to received accounts, southern social institutions did not impede the diffusion of the mechanical cotton picker from the West to the cotton belt in the South so much as environmental factors and educational attainment did. Rising cotton yields and exogenous technological change drove diffusion by reducing the costs of machine harvesting. Labor displacement resulting from the cotton picker occurred only in a concentrated burst after 1959. |
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| subjects | Adoption of Innovations Agricultural Production Agricultural Technology American history Coefficients Cost estimates Cotton Crop harvesting Crops Educational attainment Harvest Machinery Production automation Social institutions Southern States Technological change Textile Industry Twentieth Century Variable costs |
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