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The effect of the 1966 amendment of the fair labor standards act on agricultural employment in the U. S. South

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  1. Agricultural Economics and the Experiment Station and on the Giannini Foundation, University of California, Davis

    Theodore P. Lianos (Assistant Professor and Agricultural Economist)

  2. Department of Agricultural Economics, University of California, Davis

    Scott Cauchois Jr. (research assistant)

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Lianos, T.P., Cauchois, S. The effect of the 1966 amendment of the fair labor standards act on agricultural employment in the U. S. South. Ann Reg Sci 6, 145–159 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01285522

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