TRUCK-FARM LABOR IX NEW JERSEY, 192: 
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The numbers of farm workers who had ever in their lifetime, or 
recently since 1918, engaged in certain occupations or groups of 
occupations are given in Table 9. (See also fig. 8.) The interplay 
of labor demands and of occupational opportunities, some of them 
seasonal and cyclical, keeps many workers shifting more or less in 
spite of themselves in such a State as New Jersey, Consequently it is 
Percentages of 683 Farm Employees Who Had Engaged in Certain Occupations or Groups of 
Occupations in Civil Life, Exclusively and Nonexclusively of Other Occupations 
PER CENT 
40 60 
100 
EXCLUSIVE 
(OFOTHER OCCUPATIONS) 
agriculture: 
UNSKILLED 
AGRICULTURE 
SKILLED 
AGRICULTURE 
SKILLED AND 
UNSKILLED 
AGRICULTURE 
UNSKILLED AND 
INDUSTRY UNSKILLED 
AGRICULTURE 
UNSKILLED AND 
INDUSTRY SKILLED 
ANY TYPE, 
UNSKILLED WORK 
ONLY 
ANY TYPE, 
SKILLED WORK ONLY 
NON-EXCLUSIVE 
(of other occupations) 
AGRICULTURE 
AND INDUSTRY 
(skilled op unskilled op both) 
SKILLED WORK, 
ANY TYPE 
SKILLED WORK, 
ANY TYPE OTHER 
THAN AGRICULTURE 
Pecent/u 
(JAM., /S/S - SUUHEf? or 1922 J 
Pig. 8. — Farm employees, as a whole, are unskilled laborers. Four-fifths of those inter- 
viewed in this study had never engaged in skilled, responsible work ; two-fifths had 
done nothing except farm work 
noteworthy that even though large numbers of minors of limited 
experience were included nearly two in five had never engaged in 
anything except agriculture, also that over half had done no other 
kind of work since 1918. The dependence of Xew Jersey agriculture 
upon other industries for workers and the dependence of agricultural 
workers upon other employment part of the time are shown by the 
