LEADER 06090nam 2200769Ia 450 001 9910462622703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8122-0103-5 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812201031 035 $a(CKB)2670000000418355 035 $a(OCoLC)654820587 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10748824 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442238 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse26807 035 $a(DE-B1597)448956 035 $a(OCoLC)979630796 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812201031 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442238 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10748824 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL682320 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000418355 100 $a20020801d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aFighting for the farm$b[electronic resource] $erural America transformed /$fedited by Jane Adams 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2003 215 $a1 online resource (346 p.) 311 $a1-322-51038-5 311 $a0-8122-1830-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [287]-324) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$t1 Introduction /$rAdams, Jane --$tPart I North American Agriculture in the World System: Overview and Case Studies --$t2 The Social Economy of Development: The State of/and the Imperial Valley /$rRudy, Alan P. --$t3 From the National Policy to Continentalism and Globalization: The Shifting Context of Canadian Agricultural Policies /$rKnuttifa, K. Murray --$t4 The Contested Terrain of Swine Production: Deregulation and Reregulation of Corporate Farming Laws in Missouri /$rConstance, Douglas H. / Kleine, Anna M. / Rikoon, J. Sanford --$t5 The Contingent Creation of Rural Interest Groups /$rWells, Miriam J. --$tPart II Foundations of Twentieth Century U.S. Policy --$t6 The Origin of the Federal Farm Loan Act: Issue Emergence and Agenda-Setting in the Progressive Era Print Press /$rShulman, Stuart W. --$t7 Low Modernism and the Agrarian New Deal: A Different Kind of State /$rGilbert, Jess --$t8 The New Deal Farm Programs: Looking for Reconstruction in American Agriculture /$rSummers, Mary --$t9 The U.S. Farm Financial Crisis of the 19805 /$rBarnett, Barry J. --$tPart III The Political Implications of Daily Life --$t10 The Entrepreneurial Self Identity and Morality in a Midwestern Farming Community /$rDudley, Kathryn Marie --$t11 Considerably More Than Vegetables, a Lot Less Than Community: The Dilemma of Community Supported Agriculture /$rDeLind, Laura B. --$tPart IV The Politics of the Environment --$t12 Canadian Agricultural Policy Liberal, Global, and Sustainable /$rHalf, Alan --$t13 Constructing Genetic Engineering in the Food and Fiber System as a Problem: Urban Social Movement Organizations as Players in Agricultural Discourse /$rReisner, Ann --$t14 Eating in the Gardens of Gaia Envisioning Polycultural Communities /$rFriedmann, Harriet --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tContributors --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aIn 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 1920's. 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 1980's 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. 606 $aAgriculture$xEconomic aspects$zNorth America 606 $aAgriculture$xEconomic aspects$zUnited States 606 $aAgriculture$xEconomic aspects$zCanada 606 $aAgriculture and state$zUnited States 606 $aAgriculture and state$zCanada 606 $aAgricultural credit$zUnited States 606 $aAgricultural credit$zCanada 606 $aFarms, Small$zUnited States 606 $aFarms, Small$zCanada 606 $aAgricultural innovations$xEnvironmental aspects 607 $aUnited States$xRural conditions 607 $aCanada$xRural conditions 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAgriculture$xEconomic aspects 615 0$aAgriculture$xEconomic aspects 615 0$aAgriculture$xEconomic aspects 615 0$aAgriculture and state 615 0$aAgriculture and state 615 0$aAgricultural credit 615 0$aAgricultural credit 615 0$aFarms, Small 615 0$aFarms, Small 615 0$aAgricultural innovations$xEnvironmental aspects. 676 $a338.1/0973 701 $aAdams$b Jane$g(Jane H.)$01046330 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910462622703321 996 $aFighting for the farm$92473155 997 $aUNINA