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In North America industrial agriculture has now virtually displaced diversified family farming. The prevailing system depends heavily on labor supplied by migrants and immigrants, and its reliance on monoculture raises environmental concerns. In this book Jane Adams and contributors-anthropologists...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Adams, Jane (Jane H.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003.
Temas:
Agriculture > Economic aspects > North America.
Agriculture > Economic aspects > United States.
Agriculture > Economic aspects > Canada.
Agriculture and state > United States.
Agriculture and state > Canada.
Agricultural credit > United States.
Agricultural credit > Canada.
Farms, Small > United States.
Farms, Small > Canada.
Agricultural innovations > Environmental aspects.
Agriculture > Aspect économique > Amérique du Nord.
Agriculture > Aspect économique > États-Unis.
Agriculture > Aspect économique > Canada.
Politique agricole > États-Unis.
Politique agricole > Canada.
Crédit agricole > États-Unis.
Crédit agricole > Canada.
Petites exploitations agricoles > États-Unis.
Petites exploitations agricoles > Canada.
Agriculture > Innovations > Aspect de l'environnement.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Rural.
Agricultural credit
Agricultural innovations > Environmental aspects
Agriculture and state
Agriculture > Economic aspects
Farms, Small
Rural conditions
Sozialpolitik
Agrarpolitik
Wirtschaftspolitik
Aufsatzsammlung
United States > Rural conditions.
Canada > Rural conditions.
Canada
North America
United States
Kanada
USA
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Jane Adams
  • I. North American Agriculture in the World System: Overview and Case Studies
  • The social economy of development: the state of/and the Imperial Valley / Alan P. Rudy
  • From the national policy to continentalism and globalization: the shifting context of Canadian agricultural policies / K. Murray Knuttila
  • The contested terrain of swine production: deregulation and reregulation of corporate farming laws in Missouri / Douglas H. Constance, Anna M. Kleiner, J. Sanford Rikoon
  • The contingent creation of rural interest groups / Miriam J. Wells
  • II. Foundations of Twentieth Century U.S. Policy
  • The origin of the federal Farm Loan Act: issue emergence and agenda-setting in the progressive era print press / Stuart W. Shulman
  • Low modernism and the agrarian New Deal: a different kind of state / Jess Gilbert
  • The New Deal farm programs: looking for reconstruction in American agriculture / Mary Summers
  • The U.S. farm financial crisis of the 1980s / Barry J. Barnett
  • III. The Political Implications of Daily Life
  • The entrepreneurial self: identity and morality in a midwestern farming community / Kathryn Marie Dudley
  • Considerably more than vegetables, a lot less than community: the dilemma of community supported agriculture / Laura B. DeLind
  • IV. The Politics of the Environment
  • Canadian agricultural policy: liberal, global, and sustainable / Alan Hall
  • Constructing genetic engineering in the food and fiber system as a problem: urban social movement organizations as players in agricultural discourse / Ann Reisner
  • Eating in the gardens of Gaia: envisioning polycultural communities / Harriet Friedmann.

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