Fighting for the Farm : Rural America Transformed /

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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
Otros Autores: Adams, Jane (Jane H.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Aufsatzsammlung
Wirtschaftspolitik
Agrarpolitik
Sozialpolitik
Rural conditions.
Farms, Small.
Agriculture > Economic aspects.
Agriculture and state.
Agricultural innovations > Environmental aspects.
Agricultural credit.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Rural.
Agriculture > Innovations > Aspect de l'environnement.
Petites exploitations agricoles > Canada.
Petites exploitations agricoles > États-Unis.
Credit agricole > Canada.
Credit agricole > États-Unis.
Politique agricole > Canada.
Politique agricole > États-Unis.
Agriculture > Aspect economique > Canada.
Agriculture > Aspect economique > États-Unis.
Agriculture > Aspect economique > Amerique du Nord.
Farms, Small > Canada.
Farms, Small > United States.
Agricultural credit > Canada.
Agricultural credit > United States.
Agriculture and state > Canada.
Agriculture and state > United States.
Agriculture > Economic aspects > Canada.
Agriculture > Economic aspects > United States.
Agriculture > Economic aspects > North America.
USA
Kanada
United States.
North America.
Canada.
Canada > Rural conditions.
United States > Rural conditions.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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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