Download or read book The Influence of the AAA Cotton Program Upon the Tenant Cropper and Laborer written by Frederick Charles Frey and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cry from the Cotton written by Donald Grubbs and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2000-07-01 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Southern Tenant Farmers' Union was founded in eastern Arkansas in 1934 to protest the New Deal's enrichment of Southern cotton barons at the expense of suffering sharecroppers, both black and white. Their courageous struggle, in the face of determined and often violent resistance from their landlords, is the subject of this thorough study from Donald H. Grubbs, which was published to critical acclaim in 1971. Cry from the Cotton was the first full-scale look at the STFU and its leaders. It discloses that, although the union operated under noticeable socialist party sponsorship in its infancy, it drew much more upon the native Southern evangelical and populist traditions, much as the civil rights movement would do twenty-five years later. Grubbs convincingly demonstrates that while the STFU failed to gain immediate social justice for its members, it resulted in the formation of the Farm Security Administration, which even today continues to aid the rural poor, and it played a large part in forcing the formation of the La Follette Civil Liberties Committee, whose spotlight on management terrorism helped the CIO toward success. The volume stands as a classic on labor issues and class struggle and still echoes with the haunting plea of the dispossessed for equity.
Download or read book Agricultural Economics Bibliography written by United States. Bureau of Agricultural Economics. Library and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Interstate Migration Washington hearings Dec 11 1940 and Feb 26 1941 Topical index pts 1 10 inclusive written by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee to Investigate the Interstate Migration of Destitute Citizens and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Agricultural Economics Bibliography written by and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Breadlines Knee Deep in Wheat written by Janet Poppendieck and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2014-04-26 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At 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. Utliizing a wide variety of official and unofficial sources, the author reveals with unusual clarity the evolution from a policy directly responsive to the poor to a policy serving mainly democratic needs.
Download or read book Migration of Workers written by United States. Department of Labor and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Studies In The Transformation Of U S Agriculture written by A. Eugene Havens and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-05 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, the consensual view of rural society has been challenged by theorists identifying the conflict, exploitation, and power relations in rural society. Beyond this theoretical challenge, empirical studies of the sociology of agriculture have provided a fresh understanding of the dynamics of U.S. agriculture. This book contributes to the growing literature by providing a historical perspective. The contributors explore historical developments in U.S. agriculture within the context of the larger political economy. The book opens with a review of the similarities and differences between the critical rural sociology of today with that of the 1930s and moves on to a study of the accumulation process in U.S. agriculture. Other issues covered include the erosion of the southern class structure during and after the 1930s, the landed aristocracy's reassertion in the post-bellum south, changes in the class structure and locus of agriculture in the midwest, and historical developments in the labor process and in capitalist agriculture in California. The concluding chapter provides a framework for studying both the origins and the consequences of state agriculture policies.
Download or read book The Final Frontiers 1880 1930 written by John Otto and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1999-09-30 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the settlement history of the alluvial bottomlands of the lower Mississippi Valley from 1880 to 1930, this study details how cotton-growers transformed the swamplands of northwestern Mississippi, northeastern Louisiana, northeastern Arkansas, and southern Missouri into cotton fields. Although these alluvial bottomlands contained the richest cotton soils in the American South, cotton-growers in the Southern bottomlands faced a host of environmental problems, including dense forests, seasonal floods, water-logged soils, poor transportation, malarial fevers and insect pests. This interdisciplinary approach uses primary and secondary sources from the fields of history, geography, sociology, agronomy, and ecology to fill an important gap in our knowledge of American environmental history. Requiring laborers to clear and cultivate their lands, cotton-growers recruited black and white workers from the upland areas of the Southern states. Growers also supported the levee districts which built imposing embankments to hold the floodwaters in check. Canals and drainage ditches were constructed to drain the lands, and local railways and graveled railways soon ended the area's isolation. Finally, quinine and patent medicines would offer some relief from the malarial fevers that afflicted bottomland residents, and commercial poisons would combat the local pests that attacked the cotton plants, including the boll weevils which arrived in the early twentieth century.
Download or read book Experiment Station Record written by U.S. Office of Experiment Stations and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 1082 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Agricultural Economics Literature written by United States. Bureau of Agricultural Economics. Library and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Agricultural Economics Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Experiment Station Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 1070 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cotton Literature written by Emily L. Day and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cotton Literature written by United States. Department of Agriculture. Library and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Biennial Report written by Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Between Soil and Society written by Jonathan Coppess and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2024-05 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States spends approximately $5 billion each year on federal programs designed to conserve natural resources and address the environmental consequences of modern agricultural production. Like farm policy, agricultural conservation policy is rooted in the Roosevelt administration’s New Deal efforts of the 1930s. Farm conservation policy has waxed and waned since then, related to fluctuating economic and environmental concerns. In Between Soil and Society Jonathan Coppess traces the history and development of U.S. conservation policy, especially as it compares to and interacts with the development of farm policy. By answering questions about the differences in political support and development for these similar policy regimes, with efforts to apply legal and political theory to understand the differences, Coppess considers the implications of climate change and lessons for future policy development. One of the few books to make sense of the legal and economic analysis of agricultural conservation policy, Between Soil and Society provides a window into larger issues of American politics, governance, and policy development.
