The Rise of the Cotton Industry in California: A Comparative Perspective
研究了加州棉花产业到1950年成为主要作物的过程，从制度和环境角度解释其比美国南部更快实现机械化采摘的原因。
By 1950 cotton had emerged as one of California's leading crops and California had become an important cotton producing state. The institutional and environmental settings associated with cotton cultivation in California differed markedly from those found in the Cotton South. Both institutional conditions, such as the size of farms, and environmental factors, such as the region's dry weather during the harvest season, help explain the more rapid mechanization of picking in California.