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Every farm a factory : the industrial ideal in American agriculture / / Deborah Fitzgerald



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Autore: Fitzgerald Deborah Kay Visualizza persona
Titolo: Every farm a factory : the industrial ideal in American agriculture / / Deborah Fitzgerald Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2003
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (255 pages)
Disciplina: 338.1/0973
Soggetto topico: Agriculture - Economic aspects - United States - History - 20th century
Family farms - United States - History - 20th century
Agricultural credit - United States - History - 20th century
Farms, Size of - Economic aspects - United States - History - 20th century
Farm mechanization - Economic aspects - United States - History - 20th century
Agriculture - Capital investments - United States - History - 20th century
Farm mortgages - United States - History - 20th century
Business cycles - United States - History - 20th century
Farm foreclosures - United States - History - 20th century
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-234).
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Industrial Ideal in American Agriculture -- 2. By the Numbers: Economics and Management in Agriculture -- 3. Agricultural Engineers and Industrialization -- 4. Farms as Factories: The Emergence of Large-Scale Farming -- 5. The Campbell Farming Corporation -- 6. Collectivization and Industrialization: Learning from the Soviets -- Conclusion: Changing the Landscape -- Appendix -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: During the early decades of the twentieth century, agricultural practice in America was transformed from a pre-industrial to an industrial activity. In this book Deborah Fitzgerald argues that farms became modernized in the 1920's because they adopted not only new machinery but also the financial, cultural, and ideological apparatus of industrialism. Fitzgerald examines how bankers and emerging professionals in engineering and economics pushed for systematic, businesslike farming. She discusses how factory practices served as a template for the creation across the country of industrial or corporate farms. She looks at how farming was affected by this revolution and concludes by following several agricultural enthusiasts to the Soviet Union, where the lessons of industrial farming were studied.
Titolo autorizzato: Every farm a factory  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-281-73158-7
9786611731588
0-300-13341-3
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910820626203321
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Serie: Yale agrarian studies.