Shake-out : Iowa farm families in the 1980s /

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The farm crisis of the 1980s quickly became a media event, with scenes depicted starkly in black and white on color TV. The embattled farmers, accompanied by their advocates, stood holding off bankers and sheriffs wielding foreclosure notices. In this new book, using findings from interviews and par...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Friedberger, Mark
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, [2015]
Temas:
Agriculture > Economic aspects > Iowa.
Farmers > Iowa > Economic conditions.
Rural families > Iowa > Economic conditions.
Agriculture > Aspect économique > Iowa.
Familles rurales > Iowa > Conditions économiques.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Rural.
Agriculture > Economic aspects
Farmers > Economic conditions
Rural families > Economic conditions
Iowa
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Sumario:The farm crisis of the 1980s quickly became a media event, with scenes depicted starkly in black and white on color TV. The embattled farmers, accompanied by their advocates, stood holding off bankers and sheriffs wielding foreclosure notices. In this new book, using findings from interviews and participant observation, agricultural historian Mark Friedberger peels away the emotion and rhetoric of the ""save the family farm"" movement to provide a realistic picture of what happened in on important farm state. Shake-out: Iowa Farm Families in the 1980s depicts the farm crisis of the 1980s in al
Descripción Física:1 online resource (214 pages)
ISBN:9780813161471
0813161479
1322600813
9781322600819
0813116821
9780813116822

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