Full Description
This book explores historical developments in U.S. agriculture within the context of the larger political economy. It provides a review of the similarities and differences between the critical rural sociology of today with that of the 1930s.
Contents
Other Titles in This Series -- Foreword -- Critical Rural Sociology of Yesterday and Today -- Capitalist Development in the United States: State, Accumulation, and Agricultural Production Systems -- The Underdevelopment of the South: State and Agriculture, 1865-1900 -- Farmers' Movements and the Changing Structure of Agriculture -- Local State Structure and the Transformation of Southern Agriculture -- New Deal Farm Policy and Oklahoma Populism -- Class Relations and Class Structure in the Midwest -- Immigration Policy and Class Relations in California Agriculture -- Agriculture and the State: An Analytical Approach