Professor Emeritus Philip Martin's Research on Immigration and Farm Labor Cited in Bloomberg Opinion Piece about Reality of Mechanization Replacing Workers

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March 14, 2018

Agricultural and Resource Economics Professor Emeritus Philip Martin—also editor of Migration News and Rural Migration News, and chair of UC Comparative Immigration & Integration Program—is quoted in an opinion piece about how much of a reality it is for robots to be able to replace all farm labor.

Dr. Martin's cited research includes how the expansion of labor-intensive commodities such as strawberries are creating jobs that are otherwise being lost to mechanization in commodities such as raisin grapes.

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