FIGHTING FOR THE FARM Rural America Transformed by Jane Adams (Edited by) - 2003

University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

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University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002-11-27. Paperback. Good.

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University of Pennsylvania Press. Very Good-. 2002. Softcover. 0812218302 . Glossy softbound covers. Light wear to the covers.; 8.5 X 6.7 X 1.0 inches; 352 pages .

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. reprint. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover, 338 pages. 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… Read More

University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002-11-27. Paperback. Used:Good.

Paperback / softback. New. Explores the political dimensions of North American agriculture.

Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, 2002. Paperback. New. 360 pages. 9.00x6.25x1.25 inches.