Distributing the costs and benefits of cotton gin reorganization

Introduction; Impacts of change; Objectives; Technological change and cotton production; General perspectives on technology; Impacts of unemployment; Cotton production in Dona Ana County, New Mexico; Benefits and costs; Benefits: the theory; Benefits from gin reorganization; Costs to labor; Costs to gin owners; Rates of return; Institutional alternatives; Unemployment compensation; Severance payments; Counseling and job retraining; Collective bargaining; Redistributed of cooperative ownership; In summary: policy options; Concluding observations; Bibliography; AcknowledgmentsBulletin containing the results of a study to determine the most efficient means for reorganizing cotton ginning in Doña Ana County in New Mexico, and the most equitable way of distributing the costs and benefits of the reorganization to those directly affected