TY - JOUR AU - Scheuring, Ann Foley AU - Thompson, Orville E. TI - Of men and machines: Technological change and people in agriculture Part II: Changes in hired farm labor and in rural communities JF - California Agriculture JO - Calif Agr Y1 - 1980/02/01 VL - 34 IS - 2 SP - 7 EP - 9 PB - University of California Agriculture and Nature Resources SN - 0008-0845 UR - http://www.ucanr.edu/sites/calagjournal/archive/?article=ca.v034n02p7 AB - Not only have changes occurred in the way farms and farm families are run (see January 1980 issue of California Agriculture), but there have been dramatic changes within a single generation in the handling of hired labor (there is less need for it) and in the composition of rural communities (more Spanish-speaking residents are settling down, particularly in the Central Valley). This is the last of two articles on the subject.