Preserving the family farm : women, community and the foundations of agribusiness in the Midwest, 1900-1940 / Mary Neth.
Material type: TextSeries: Revisiting rural AmericaPublication details: Baltimore : Johns Jopkins University Press, 1995.Description: xiii, 347 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN:- 0801848989 (hc: alk. paper)
- 9780801848988 (hc: alk. paper)
- HN79.A14 N48 1995
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Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--Virginia Polytechnical Institute and State University.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [329]-337) and index.
pt. 1. Family Farming as a Social System. 1. The Farm Family: Survival Strategies and the Family Labor System. 2. Building a Rural Neighborhood. 3. Communities Divided: The Limits of Rural Neighboring -- pt. 2. Agricultural Policy and Community Survival Strategies. 4. Defining the Rural Problem: Social Policy and Agricultural Institutions. 5. Reorganizing the Rural Community: Contested Visions of Community. 6. Community Work and Technological Change: The Thresheree -- pt. 3. Agricultural Policy and Family Survival Strategies. 7. Consumption and the Isolated Nuclear Farm Family Ideal: Making Do in a Consumer Culture. 8. The "Farmer" and the "Farmer's Wife": Gender Ideology and Changing Concepts of Work. 9. How You Gonna Keep 'Em Down on the Farm? Mass Culture, Depression, and the Decisions of Farm Youths.