Rural social organization and co-operative labor.

The far-reaching changes which are everywhere apparent in rural life have as yet failed to produce any agreement as to fundamental causes. These may be discovered in the interdependence of rural technology, sentiment systems, relational structures, and social classes. This interdependence, as well as the transformation, is revealed in the manner in which the agricultural activities are organized in relation to technology. The nature of such co-operative effortsand their significance to changing rural social organization is describe here.