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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456091003321

Autore

Winders William <1971->

Titolo

The politics of food supply [[electronic resource] ] : U.S. agricultural policy in the world economy / / Bill Winders ; foreword by James C. Scott

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven [Conn.], : Yale University Press, c2009

ISBN

1-282-08970-6

9786612089701

1-282-35323-3

9786612353239

0-300-15623-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (299 p.)

Collana

Yale agrarian studies series

Altri autori (Persone)

ScottJames C

Disciplina

338.1/973

Soggetti

Food supply - Political aspects - United States

Agriculture and state - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-263) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: agriculture between state and market -- The early battles lost: reaching for regulation, 1920-1932 -- Winning supply management: a new deal for agriculture, 1933-1945 -- Shifting agricultural coalitions: sliding back toward the free market, 1945-1975 -- The decline of the South: changing power within U.S. agriculture, 1945-1975 -- Agriculture and the changing world economy: the U.S. food regime, 1945-1990 -- The 1996 FAIR Act: changing U.S. agricultural policy -- Epilogue. After FAIR : a new departure?

Sommario/riassunto

This book deals with an important and timely issue: the political and economic forces that have shaped agricultural policies in the United States during the past eighty years. It explores the complex interactions of class, market, and state as they have affected the formulation and application of agricultural policy decisions since the New Deal, showing how divisions and coalitions within Southern, Corn Belt, and Wheat Belt agriculture were central to the ebb and flow of price supports and production controls. In addition, the book highlights the roles played



by the world economy, the civil rights movement, and existing national policy to provide an invaluable analysis of past and recent trends in supply management policy.