Fighting for the Farm

Fighting for the Farm

Fighting for the Farm

Jane Adams

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University of Pennsylvania Press
Año de edición:
2002
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Macroeconomía
ISBN:
9780812218305
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Fighting for the Farm Rural America Transformed Edited by Jane Adams 'The chapters do an excellent job of showing the intersection of structure and agency, including both powerful actors who alter structures in their own interests and grassroots movements that set up alternative structures and different interpretations of reality. . . . The authors of this volume analyze actors who are struggling to construct alternative food systems in harmony with humanity and nature.'--Contemporary Sociology 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 and political scientists among them--analyze the political dynamics that have transformed agriculture in the United States and Canada since the 1920s. The contributors demonstrate that people become politically active in arenas that range from the state to public discourse to relations between growers and their contractors or laborers, and that politics is a process that is intimately local as well as global. The farm financial crisis of the 1980s precipitated rapid consolidation of farms and a sharp decline in rural populations. It brought new actors into the political process, including organic farmers and environmentalists. Fighting for the Farm: Rural America Transformed considers the politics of farm policy and the consequences of the increasing alignment of agricultural interests with the global economy. The first section of the book places North American agriculture in the context of the world system; the second, a series of case studies, examines the foundations of current U.S. policy; subsequent sections deal with the political implications for daily life and the politics of the environment. Recognizing the influence of an array of political constituencies and arenas, Fighting for the Farm charts a decisive shift since the early part of the twentieth century from a discursive regime rooted in economics to one that now incorporates a variety of environmental and quality-of-life concerns. Jane Adams is Associate Professor of Anthropology and History, Southern Illinois University. She is author of The Transformation of Rural Life in Southern Illinois, 1890-1990 and editor of 'All Anybody Wanted of Me Was to Work': The Memoirs of Edith Bradley Rendleman. 2002 | 352 pages | 6 x 9 ISBN 978-0-8122-3695-8 | Cloth | $75.00s | £49.00 ISBN 978-0-8122-1830-5 | Paper | $29.95s | £19.50 ISBN 978-0-8122-0103-1 | Ebook | $29.95s | £19.50 World Rights | Public Policy, Economics, Business, Agriculture, American History Short copy: Explores the political dimensions of North American agriculture.

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