Breadlines Knee-Deep in Wheat : Food Assistance in the Great Depression /

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"At no time during the Great Depression was the contradiction between agriculture surplus and widespread hunger more wrenchingly graphic than in the government's attempt to raise pork prices through the mass slaughter of miliions of'unripe'little pigs. This contradiction was wide...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Poppendieck, Janet, 1945- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2014]
Edición:Updated and expanded.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Food relief.
Depressions.
Agriculture and state.
COOKING > History.
Politique agricole > États-Unis > Histoire.
Crises economiques > 1929 > États-Unis.
Aide alimentaire > États-Unis > Histoire.
Agriculture and state > United States > History.
Depressions > 1929 > United States.
Food relief > United States > History.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Paradox of want amid plenty
  • The plight of the farmer
  • Depression: deprivation and despair
  • The politics of wheat and drought
  • Government grain for the needy
  • The end of the Hoover Era
  • The promise of the New Deal
  • The little pigs: the genesis of relief distribution
  • The federal surplus relief corporation
  • The corporation in conflict: competition with private enterprise
  • Transfer to the Department of Agriculture
  • Accommodation to agricultural priorities
  • Food assistance: the legacy of New Deal policy choices.

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