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Author: Mark Friedberger Publisher: University Press of Kentucky ISBN: 9780813116365 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 300
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The farm family is a unique institution, perhaps the last remnant, in an increasingly complex world, of a simpler social order in which economic and domestic activities were inextricably bound together. In the past few years, however, American agriculture has suffered huge losses, and family farmers have seen their way of life threatened by economic forces beyond their control. At a time when agriculture is at a crossroads, this study provides a needed historical perspective on the problems family farmers have faced since the turn of the century.
Author: Mark Friedberger Publisher: University Press of Kentucky ISBN: 0813186110 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 426
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The farm family is a unique institution, perhaps the last remnant, in an increasingly complex world, of a simpler social order in which economic and domestic activities were inextricably bound together. In the past few years, however, American agriculture has suffered huge losses, and family farmers have seen their way of life threatened by economic forces beyond their control. At a time when agriculture is at a crossroads, this study provides a needed historical perspective on the problems family farmers have faced since the turn of the century. For analysis Mark Friedberger has chosen two areas where agriculture retains major importance in the local economy—Iowa and California's Central Valley. Within these two geographic areas he examines farm families with regard to their farming methods, land tenure, inheritance practices, use of credit, and community relations. These aspects are then compared to assess change in rural society and to discern trends in the future of family farming. Despite the shocks endured by family farmers at various times in this century, Friedberger finds that some families have remained remarkably resilient. These families evinced a strong commitment to their way of life. They sought to own their land; they maintained inheritance from one generation to the next; they were generally conservative in using credit; and they preferred to diversify their enterprises. These practices served them well in good times and in bad. Innovative in its use of a combination of documentary sources, quantitative methods, and direct observation, this study makes an important contribution to the history of American agriculture and of American society.
Author: Maud Mathes Wilson Publisher: ISBN: Category : Farmhouses Languages : en Pages : 48
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This bulletin is prepared as an aid to designers and property owners in planning low-cost farmhouses, though it is recognized that many of the features suggested cannot be put into farmhouses built at the lower cost levels. However, all farmhouses should provide shelter and space for cooking, eating, sleeping, child care, leisure activities, storage, household tasks, and certain kinds of work that are more or less peculiar to farm life.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Family Farms, Rural Development, and Special Studies Publisher: ISBN: Category : Agriculture Languages : en Pages : 382
Author: Sonya Salamon Publisher: UNC Press Books ISBN: 146961118X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 318
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Drawing on a decade-long ethnographic study of seven Illinois farming communities, Salamon demonstrates how family land transfers serve as the mechanism fro recreating the social relations fundamental to midwestern ethnic identities. She shows how, along with the land, families pass on a cultural patrimony that shapes practices of farm management, succession, and inheritance and that ultimately determines how land tenure and the personality of rural communities evolve.
Author: James W. Wood Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108882730 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 519
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Viewing the subsistence farm as primarily a 'demographic enterprise' to create and support a family, this book offers an integrated view of the demography and ecology of preindustrial farming. Taking an interdisciplinary perspective, it examines how traditional farming practices interact with demographic processes such as childbearing, death, and family formation. It includes topics such as household nutrition, physiological work capacity, health and resistance to infectious diseases, as well as reproductive performance and mortality. The book argues that the farming household is the most informative scale at which to study the biodemography and physiological ecology of preindustrial, non-commercial agriculture. It offers a balanced appraisal of the farming system, considering its strengths and limitations, as well as the implications of viewing it as a 'demographic enterprise' rather than an economic one. A valuable resource for graduate students and researchers in biological and physical anthropology, cultural anthropology, natural resource management, agriculture and ecology.
Author: Barbara Harriss-White Publisher: Concept Publishing Company ISBN: Category : Agriculture Languages : en Pages : 322
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Economic analysis of agricultural marketing of the agricultural surplus and its effects on poverty in arid zone rural areas of South India - studies social classes and the agrarian structure; examines food consumption of low income households, food production and market access, production relations, etc.; discusses social discrimination through commodity markets and financial markets as well as seasonality of exchange and poverty. Bibliography, graphs, illustrations, references and statistical tables.
Author: Shibsankar Jena Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing ISBN: 1527552896 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 288
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The social science discourse on the power of modernity and its everyday negotiation with tradition and locality in India has been a matter of continuous debate and discussion among academicians since the colonial era. By taking agriculture as a special field of investigation, this book describes the condition of ‘modernity’ in the agrarian social system of contemporary India. Farming is not only an economic activity, but also a personality formation where ‘status’ plays a significant role in Indian society. Taking ‘culture’, and ‘social status’ as the two important variables in the local ‘agriculture as performance’, this book develops a sociology of knowledge approach towards agrarian modernity and development in postcolonial India.
Author: Polly Hill
Author: Polly Hill
Author: Mark Friedberger
Author: Mark Friedberger
Author: Maud Mathes Wilson
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Family Farms, Rural Development, and Special Studies
Author: Sonya Salamon
Author: 
Author: James W. Wood
Author: Barbara Harriss-White
Author: Shibsankar Jena