Full-time Occupation Research Articles

CONSERVATION AND DEMOCRACY

The useful occupation of the total manpower of a nation is the first essential necessity for the general wellbeing of the whole, as well as for the individual. This condition is dependent upon an adequate use of all natural resources, particularly the renewable portion of those resources. Potential forest land comprises a very large area in Southern Ontario in addition to the total area composed of farmers' woodlots. These factors indicate that there is opportunity to make conservation in its broadest aspect, forestry activities in particular, a fulltime occupation for a larges number of inadequately employed people.

The Agricultural Industries

IN the early agricultural systems the production and processing of food, drink and clothing was carried out within the farmer's family. It is a feature of a developed agriculture that the cultivator finds full-time occupation on the land, handing over his product to form the starting point of associated industries of ever-increasing extent and complexity. The United States offers an extensive field for the study of the economic and technical problems which these agricultural industries present; for in that country the manufacturing and processing industries based on agricultural raw materials account for no less than 15 per cent of the total industrial output and employ nearly a million people.