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The Economics of Cotton Harvest Mechanization in the United States, 1920-1970 The hallmark of economic development the world over is the long run transfer of labor from agriculture to the industrial and service sectors. This study investigates the mechanization of the cotton harvest, one of the most dramatic episodes of technological and demographic change in United States history. Following World War II, millions of workers from California to the Carolinas handpicked all American-grown cotton, but by the 1970s farmers gathered the entire crop with cotton harvesting machines. This transf