Climbing the agricultural ladder: Social mobility and motivations for migration in an Ecuadorian colonist community
During the early decades of the 20th century in the American Midwest young farming families achieved social mobility by moving up an agricultural ladder through a series of rungs, from unpaid family work, to wage labor, to tenant farming, to a mortgaged farm, and, finally, to full ownership of a farm. In this paper we … Continue reading Climbing the agricultural ladder: Social mobility and motivations for migration in an Ecuadorian colonist community