Covid and US Farm Labor
Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies
; 21(1):45-58, 2023.
Article
in English
| Scopus | ID: covidwho-2243143
ABSTRACT
Many governments closed their borders in spring 2020 to prevent the spread of Covid, but they also made exceptions to allow farm employers to recruit temporary foreign workers to fill seasonal farm jobs. The pandemic changed many parameters of food systems. Closed restaurants led to widespread layoffs in leisure and hospitality, rates of Covid were high among nonfarm food processing and meatpacking workers, and there was less Covid than expected among the foreign workers who increased their share of employment in production agriculture. The pandemic accelerated three major changes that were already underway, viz., more labor-saving mechanization, more foreign workers, and increased imports of labor-intensive commodities. Mechanization increases the resilience of production agriculture to labor supply shocks. © 2023 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
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Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies
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2023
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