Plowed Under : Food Policy Protests and Performance in New Deal America.

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During the Great Depression, with thousands on bread lines, farmers were instructed by the New Deal Agricultural Adjustment Act to produce less food in order to stabilize food prices and restore the market economy. Fruit was left to rot on trees, crops were plowed under, and millions of piglets and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: White, Ann Folino
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, 2014.
Temas:
1900-1999
Agriculture and state > United States > History > 20th century.
Protest movements > United States > History > 20th century.
New Deal, 1933-1939.
Business & Economics.
Agricultural Economics.
Politique agricole > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Contestation > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
New Deal.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > General.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
New Deal, 1933-1939
Agriculture and state.
Protest movements.
United States.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The New Deal vision for agriculture : USDA exhibits at the 1933-34 Chicago World's Fair
  • Milk dumping across America's dairyland : the May 1933 Wisconsin dairymen's strike
  • Playing "housewife" in Polonia : the 1935 Hamtramck (Michigan) women's meat boycott
  • Hunger on the highway in the cotton South : the 1939 Missouri sharecroppers' demonstration
  • Staging the Agricultural Adjustment Act : the federal theatre project's triple-a plowed under.

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