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The takeover : chicken farming and the roots of American agribusiness /

"Economists have described the upcountry Georgia poultry industry as the quintessential agribusiness. Following a trajectory from Reconstruction through the Great Depression to the present day, Monica R. Gisolfi shows how the poultry farming model of semivertical integration perfected a number...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gisolfi, Monica R. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2017]
Colección:Environmental history and the American South.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • From cotton to chicken, 1914-1939
  • World War II and the command economy, 1939-1945
  • Taking over: integrators and the birth of the modern broiler industry
  • Broiler sharecroppers and hired hands
  • From public nuisance to toxic waste, 1940-1990
  • Epilogue.