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Languages : en
Pages : 42
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Small farm programs and activities, state reports
Author: 1980 Agricultural Outlook
Author: Research, Extension, and Higher Education for Small Farms
Author: Joint Council on Food and Agricultural Sciences (U.S.). Ad Hoc Committee on Small FarmsPublisher:
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Category : Farm life
Languages : en
Pages : 66
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Perspectives on the Structure of American Agriculture: Federal farm policies, their effects on low-income farmers and rural communities
Author: Rural America, IncPublisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Locality and Inequality
Author: Linda M. LobaoPublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438411081
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
This book explores how the recent restructuring of farming and industry has affected economic and social equality in the United States. The author explains how the farm sector has undergone a dramatic restructuring with profound effects. Moderate-size family farms, the mainstay of American agriculture, have declined during the postwar period and are now under severe financial stress. Large-scale industrialized farms — "the factories in the field," often run by corporations — continue to expand their share of agricultural sales while small farms operated on a part-time basis appear to be replacing traditional family farming. Lobao shows that public concern about farm restructuring is indeed warranted and that the nation now appears to be losing its most beneficial farms as well as industries. While local and regional social and economic forces and state policy can be brought to bear on these trends, Lobao particulary focuses on how community empowerment and broad-based political coalitions offer the most promise for fundamental change.
Perspectives on the Structure of American Agriculture
Author: Rural America, IncPublisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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In the Struggle
Author: Daniel J. O'ConnellPublisher: New Village Press
ISBN: 1613321244
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
A call to action in an ongoing battle against industrial agriculture From the early twentieth century and across generations to the present, In the Struggle brings together the stories of eight politically engaged scholars, documenting their opposition to industrial-scale agribusiness in California. As the narrative unfolds, their previously censored and suppressed research, together with personal accounts of intimidation and subterfuge, is introduced into the public arena for the first time. In the Struggle lays out historic, subterranean confrontations over water rights, labor organizing, and the corruption of democratic principles and public institutions. As California’s rural economy increasingly consolidates into the hands of land barons and corporations, the scholars’ work shifts from analyzing problems and formulating research methods to organizing resistance and building community power. Throughout their engagement, they face intense political blowback as powerful economic interests work to pollute and undermine scientific inquiry and the civic purposes of public universities. The findings and the pressure put upon the work of these scholars—Paul Taylor, Ernesto Galarza, and Isao Fujimoto among them—are a damning indictment of the greed and corruption that flourish under industrial-scale agriculture. After almost a century of empirical evidence and published research, a definitive finding becomes clear: land consolidation and economic monopoly are fundamentally detrimental to democracy and the well-being of rural societies.
Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular AffairsPublisher:
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Category : Legislative hearings
Languages : en
Pages : 1640
Book Description
Economic Democracy (Routledge Revivals)
Author: Martin CarnoyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317277082
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
This book is a discussion of and an argument for alternatives to the present structure of production in the United States—alternatives that would change the control of capital and how it is used. First published 1980, Carnoy and Shearer discuss the economic problems facing the 1980s and argue for a strategy to transform capital from corporations to the public. A book that remains relevant in today’s political economic climate, this title is ideal for students of economics and politics, as well as general readers interested in past and present economic problems and potential solutions.
Central Valley Project Improvement Act Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement
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Category : Central Valley (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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