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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: White, Ann Folino
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Agricultural Economics.
Business & Economics.
Protest movements.
Agriculture and state.
New Deal, 1933-1939
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > General.
New Deal.
Contestation > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Politique agricole > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
New Deal, 1933-1939.
Protest movements > United States > History > 20th century.
Agriculture and state > United States > History > 20th century.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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