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Excerpt from The Hired Farm Working Force of 1957: A Progress Report The number of farm wage workers who spent the greater part of their time in 1957 doing farm wage work-two - fifths of the total was the lowest recorded since this series began in 19a5. The decrease occurred both among those who supplemented their farm wage earnings with nonfarm work and those who did not (table The number who were chiefly engaged in farm work other than wage work in 1957 (farm opera tion or unpaid family work) was greater than it had been since 1951. The over - all result was a reduction in the proportion chiefly engaged in farm work from about three - fifths in 195a and 1956 to just over one half of the hired farm working force in 1957. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The hired farm working force in 1957 totaled nearly 4 million workers and was the largest since 1950. However, most of the increase over 1956 was among the very short-term seasonal workers, those with fewer than 25 days of farm wage work during the year.