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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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Gisolfi, Monica R. (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2017]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.