TY  - GEN
T1  - Fighting for the farm : rural America transformed
A2  - Adams, Jane (Jane H.)
LA  - English
PP  - Philadelphia
PB  - University of Pennsylvania Press
YR  - 2003
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn654820587
AB  - 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.
OP  - 338
CN  - HD1750 .F54 2003eb
SN  - 9780812201031
SN  - 0812201035
SN  - 0812236955
SN  - 9780812236958
SN  - 0812218302
SN  - 9780812218305
KW  - Agriculture : Economic aspects : North America.
KW  - Agriculture : Economic aspects : United States.
KW  - Agriculture : Economic aspects : Canada.
KW  - Agriculture and state : United States.
KW  - Agriculture and state : Canada.
KW  - Agricultural credit : United States.
KW  - Agricultural credit : Canada.
KW  - Farms, Small : United States.
KW  - Farms, Small : Canada.
KW  - United States : Rural conditions.
KW  - Canada : Rural conditions.
KW  - Agricultural innovations : Environmental aspects.
KW  - Agriculture : Aspect économique : Amérique du Nord.
KW  - Agriculture : Aspect économique : États-Unis.
KW  - Agriculture : Aspect économique : Canada.
KW  - Politique agricole : États-Unis.
KW  - Politique agricole : Canada.
KW  - Crédit agricole : États-Unis.
KW  - Crédit agricole : Canada.
KW  - Petites exploitations agricoles : États-Unis.
KW  - Petites exploitations agricoles : Canada.
KW  - Agriculture : Innovations : Aspect de l'environnement.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Sociology : Rural.
KW  - Agricultural credit
KW  - Agricultural innovations : Environmental aspects
KW  - Agriculture and state
KW  - Agriculture : Economic aspects
KW  - Farms, Small
KW  - Rural conditions
KW  - Canada
KW  - North America
KW  - United States
KW  - Sozialpolitik
KW  - Agrarpolitik
KW  - Wirtschaftspolitik
KW  - Aufsatzsammlung
KW  - Kanada
KW  - USA
ER  -