Full Description
American agriculture has undergone dramatic transformations in the four decades that have passed since the end of World War II. The most obvious is the decline in the number of people living and working on farms. Wisconsin generally reflects many of these national trends. In 1945 the agricultural census reported 177,745 farms in Wisconsin. By 198
Contents
Introduction -- Class and Rationality in Agriculture -- Class and Agriculture -- Rationality and Agriculture -- The Social Relations of Agricultural Production -- Tenancy -- Credit -- Hired Labor -- Class Formation -- Political Dimensions of Agricultural Structure -- Forms of Struggle and Organization -- Conclusion -- Class? Rationality? Family Farm? -- Appendices -- The Poverty of Farm Labor Statistics