LEADER 06012nam 2200985 450 001 9910791033703321 005 20230830123741.0 010 $a0-520-27754-6 010 $a0-520-95842-X 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520958425 035 $a(CKB)2550000001297955 035 $a(EBL)1686846 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001236118 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11680005 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001236118 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11232387 035 $a(PQKB)10823538 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1686846 035 $a(OCoLC)879946702 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse32324 035 $a(DE-B1597)521150 035 $a(OCoLC)1102803787 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520958425 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1686846 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10871933 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL608369 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001297955 100 $a20140531h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBreadlines knee deep in wheat $efood assistance in the great depression /$fJanet Poppendieck ; foreword by Marion Nestle 205 $aUpdated and expanded edition. 210 1$aBerkeley ;$aLos Angeles, California :$cUniversity of California Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (401 p.) 225 0 $aCalifornia Studies in Food and Culture ;$v53 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-520-27753-8 311 $a1-306-77118-8 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tForeword --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction: The Paradox of Want amid Plenty --$tList of Abbreviations --$tOne. The Plight of the Farmer --$tTwo. Depression: Deprivation and Despair --$tThree. The Politics of Wheat and Drought --$tFour. Government Grain for the Needy --$tFive. The End of the Hoover Era --$tSix. The Promise of the New Deal --$tSeven. The Little Pigs: The Genesis of Relief Distribution --$tEight. The Federal Surplus Relief Corporation --$tNine. The Corporation in Conflict: Competition with Private Enterprise --$tTen. Transfer to the Department of Agriculture --$tEleven. Accommodation to Agricultural Priorities --$tTwelve. Food Assistance: The Legacy of New Deal Policy Choices --$tEpilogue --$tAcknowledgments to the 2014 Edition --$tSources --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aAt no time during the Great Depression was the contradiction between agriculture surplus and widespread hunger more wrenchingly graphic than in the government's attempt to raise pork prices through the mass slaughter of miliions of "unripe" little pigs. This contradiction was widely perceived as a "paradox." In fact, as Janet Poppendieck makes clear in this newly expanded and updated volume, it was a normal, predictable working of an economic system rendered extreme by the Depression. The notion of paradox, however, captured the imagination of the public and policy makers, and it was to this definition of the problem that surplus commodities distribution programs in the Hoover and Roosevelt administrations were addressed. This book explains in readable narrative how the New Deal food assistance effort, originally conceived as a relief measure for poor people, became a program designed to raise the incomes of commercial farmers. In a broader sense, the book explains how the New Deal years were formative for food assistance in subsequent administrations; it also examines the performance--or lack of performance--of subsequent in-kind relief programs. Beginning with a brief survey of the history of the American farmer before the depression and the impact of the Depression on farmers, the author describes the development of Hoover assistance programs and the events at the end of that administration that shaped the "historical moment" seized by the early New Deal. Poppendieck goes on to analyze the food assistance policies and programs of the Roosevelt years, the particular series of events that culminated in the decision to purchase surplus agriculture products and distribute them to the poor, the institutionalization of this approach, the resutls achieved, and the interest groups formed. The book also looks at the takeover of food assistance by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and its gradual adaptation for use as a tool in the maintenance of farm income. 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